P3D Re: New Member sends greetings (hobbies)

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>How about viewing?  This seems to me to be the most tricky part of
>the equation.  Viewing is uncommon and awkward.  You need a viewer and
>you need to be able to use the viewer or you need to train yourself
>to do weird exercises with your eyes.  That's the problem, IMO.


Well, George, when you're right, you're right.  I am spoiled because I
can freeview, and pretty well, too.  And when not freeviewing, I have
Revere and Realist and Brumburger viewers to use.  So I keep forgetting
this detail.

Ok, so we have cheap plastic lorgnettes, with massive chromatic
aberration, yuck.  We have View Magic over/under or side-by-side, which
are great (optically speaking) but relatively hard to come by (for the
neophyte, at least).  And we have freeviewing, which in my opinion is
the best alternative, but requires training and may not even be doable
by everyone.  And then we have the Realist system, which requires mounts
and mounting and relatively expensive (or cheap plastic) viewers, and
doesn't apply to the easily-obtainable prints that one would get with
the taped-together disposable cameras I mentioned.

Yes, indeed, there lies the rub.  You can take the pictures, but you
can't see 'em.  At least, not well, or not easily, or not inexpensively.
We need to get View-Magic viewers into 7-11 stores!

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)





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