P3D Re: A Revolting Development

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Ray Sokolowski writes:

>I am relatively new to 3-d photography. Have taken side by sides and
>paired camera shots. Am awaiting the delivery of a Realist (from Dr.
>T.). 

Welcome to the group! As for buying that Realist from Dr.T, you couldn't
have bought it from a better "vendor". He provides top notch technical
support, although he doesn't have a toll-free number (yet?)!

>It turns out that somebody at the
>lab had decided that I had taken 1/2 frame pictures, and he had gone to
>a lot of trouble to print them individually, in a strange 3" by 61/2 '
>format. I sent them back, writing a note explaining that they were 3d
>pictures, and please just print them as if they were regular pictures.

Nice story, it seems you have a very conscientious film processor,
although he erred.

>Is 3D so esoteric that a major lab would not recognize a side by side
>picture as being 3d? I guess so.

That is true.
  
>I will soon be part of the mainstream as far as this forum goes
>when I get my Realist. But is the Argus considered so elemantary that
>nobody in this group ever mentions one? Or am I the only one who bought
>one of these things?

Your gonna chuck your Argus once you get your Realist. ;-) The only
good thing about the Argus/Loreo is that no mounting is required and
any film processor can handle it. If your going to take prints with
your Realist (which it does very well), I would take them to the
processor who developed your Argus prints so "diligently". If they 
went to the trouble to do them as half-frames they might handle your
slightly larger than half-frame Realist prints. You'll have to do
your own mounting as opposed to the Argus. 

If your going to do slides then any processor will handle them,
although you have to tell them not to cut them. If you don't want
to mount them yourself you can send it off to Kodak.

As for discussions on the Argus (was known as a Loreo before), if
you check the archives you'll find quite a bit of discussion on it.

Gabriel 


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