P3D Re: A Beginner's Kit, Proposed

[Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Springsteen wrote:
>   Paul Talbot gamely replied:
> >
> > One glaring omission:  Photo-3D!!
> >
>   and also:
> > T'd RBs (Themelized Red Buttons) if you can afford it and your
> > interocular is not too narrow for the Red Button (mine is).
> 
>   and also:
> 
> > and access.  For that there is only one answer:  PT Pages, the
> > archival-quality storage pages for stereo slides!
> 
> 
> Whoa, Nelly!!  Customized viewers and storage pages?  Voluminous CD
> ROMs and Photo-3D subscriptions?  Maybe I can add the $600 viewmaster
> viewer! ;-) ;-)

Selective quoting can distort the substance of the message.  I made
the point that your list included nothing for viewing, and suggested
the famous $3 viewer.  I also mentioned some of the budget enhancements
to the $3 viewer before adding the T'd RB, as an alternative, with the
qualifying phrase "for those who can afford it..."

For someone like "The Boss," for example, a T'd RB is less of a hit
to the spending budget, relatively speaking, than a $3 viewer is to
most of us.

For all but a very few people, some sort of viewer is quite necessary
to get started in 3D, so the viewer suggestions seem quite reasonable.

I don't recommend sending a beginner to "slog through the archives,"
but reading the Photo-3D list was very helpful to me as a beginner,
and I would recommend it to a newbie who has shot a couple rolls.
Another resource I should have mentioned:  Charles Piper's "The
Technical Page" compilation--which is very useful for beginners
and experienced shooters alike.  Don't let the "Technical" part
of the name scare you off.  Almost all of it is easy to read.

With regard to storage, you have to put them somewhere.  I had only
a couple rolls under my belt when I started making stereo slide
storage pages from pages designed for 2x2 slides.  A beginner can
do the same, or buy them custom-made.

> So think back esteemed veterans.  What gave you your milestone
> insights when you were larnin' the ropes?

Photo-3d, especially DrT.  I waited far longer than I should have
to buy Piper's compilation.

> What tool or trick changed
> your 3-D modus operandi in a fundamental way?

Are you changing the subject?  ;)  I thought we were...

> looking for lean-and-mean intro stuff
> here.  Maximum Bang for the Beginner Budget Buck, some hard-core
> must-have basics with a favorable signal-to-noise ratio.

Now we need to list the revolutionary stuff that changed our
fundamental 3-D "modus operandi?"  That sounds like a different
thread.

Paul Talbot


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