P3D Re: Stalking the Wild Stereo Camera

[ehh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I was in Aptos, CA, (near Santa Cruz) this holiday weekend.  
During our volleyball game a 5th grader came up to me as I 
was snapping a photo of my friends and said, "Oh, you have 
one of those cameras!"  I asked if he knew what it was and 
he gave me a rather accurate description of the functioning 
of my Reailst.  He ended up asking me *exactly* how the film 
advanced to keep from exposing the same portion of film twice.  

I was very impressed by the kid (he seemed awfully small for 
5th grade--I remember being the smallest in my class and I was 
bigger than this kid).  Later  when someone asked what time it 
was he replied in military time and began to talk about the 
various types of aircraft flying overhead.  I knew that he had 
probably had an unusual childhood--certainly much different 
from my own.

Anyway, someone else spotted me with my Realist and he was not 
even a teenager!  The next generation is starting already.

Eddie Hosey


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