P3D Stalking the Wild Stereo Camera

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Susan W's recent posting about LA got me to thinking. I'd be curious
to find out when anyone (everyone?) on the list most recently saw someone
with a stereo camera BY ACCIDENT (that is, just at random and not specifically
at a stereo event). 

My most recent sighting along this line was on the South Rim of the Grand
Canyon probably 10 years ago. I was standing in one of the overlooks which
is glassed in (can't remember the name of the spot - it's to the east
of the main El Tovar, etc, complex) and there was a gentleman who looked
perhaps 70 with a Realist slung around his neck. I was tempted to ask him
about it, but he was involved with watching grand kids and so forth (you
don't want to lose a family member over the rim - it's REAL expensive to 
pay for the helicopter to go down to the bottom and fetch the body out :-)

At about the same time (circa 1987) I was also up at Yellowstone (twice)
in the same summer - no stereo cameras spotted. However, another interesting
thing was that the changeover from film to video motion pictures was heavily
underway even then. I probably saw 80% video and 20% 8/16 mm cameras. This
was at the #1 tourist mecca - Old Faithful. More recently I've seen no
film based movie cameras at all (except for commercial outfits making
theatrical releases). 

Presumably at one point there must have been at least a few people carting
around Nimslos and Nishikas but I wasn't anywere particularly touristy
during those couple of years.

THANKS!

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   6:47 PM Saturday, May 23, 1998
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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