P3D Stalking the Wild Stereo Camera

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>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).

Oddly enough, I was out in Washington Square a month ago, shooting my first
roll with the Stere-All.  I met a fellow with a Realist.  Oddly enough, he
saw my Stere-All, and guessed my name!  It was Eric Drysdale, and he's on
this list.  So he put New York and Stere-All together and came up with my
name.  (I also met Greg Dinkins the same way.  He saw my posts here, saw a
guy with a Stere-All, and guessed my name.  New York is a small town
sometimes.)

Someone else said:
>Over the years I've only had a dozen or so comments or conversations
>regarding the camera while parading it around, with some people who knew
>what it was ("Hey, stereo!") and some who wanted to know ("Huh? Stereo?").

People come up to me all the time.  Each time I go out, two or three people
will come up with questions.    This happens more with my twinned Pentax,
but also with the Stere-All and Kodak.  I'm sorry to say, I do not
encourage it or enjoy it.  It's okay the first few times, but after 20-30
times you get sick of it.

I have started carrying a nice mounted slide in a Pinsharp viewer.  I just
hand it over when they ask.

Tom



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