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P3D Selling slides
- From: John Toeppen <toeppen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: P3D Selling slides
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 23:17:35 -0700
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I appreciate what Boris is trying to do: sell slides. Nudes are
certainly a traditional market for higher priced and higher quality
images. Photos of tourist spots and the like were covered by
ViewMaster. I feel that these tiny slides gave people the wrong idea
about stereo in general; that it was only a toy. The Realist is so much
better and I am sure that twin 8"x10"s are probably the best yet.
The problem that I have found is that a good display system (viewer,
projector, autostereoscopic device) costs a great deal. Like the
monitor that you are using now.
I have sold copies of my Realist slides. The Copper Lasers shot on my
home page( http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/CVLs.html ), stuff like
that. It was a great deal of work and it was subsidized heavily by my
time. I did all of my own copy and mounting work. Slides cost me $2
each and I sold them for $4. Now I publish 321 images on a CD where
the images retail for less than $0.10 per image It is still work to
get images in into JPS. And it is not as good as the Realist viewer.
But boy, it is a big image and it is pretty darn sharp (check out :
http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/amber.html) but such files are large.
On a CD there is no problem with 500K jps compressed from 6M bmps.
I believe that the jps CD format will be one of the better ways to
market images. At least when people learn again about stereo on the web
they may want film copies.... or even originals!
I am looking into tourist markets for my CDs, Science & Nature Stores,
etc.
I am already selling my CDs but in a rather limited way, so far. I hope
to reach a larger market than I could with film.
Dan's CD was a labor of love and dedication. And a fine collection of
images in a variety of formats. And, from time to time while looking at
the images, I feel like I am surfing on the web. Not downloading,
surfing!
I would hope that other avid stereo photographers would start scanning
in their collections so that we can get stunning full screen high
resolution images in 3D on our PCs through CDs.
I wish that others would use the JPS format in general. Then we could
really surf!
Hey Boris, maybe we could split the cost of a stamping? Would this
appeal to anyone else? Or maybe include some sampler images on mine
when (if) the market volume justifies stamping?
John Toeppen
http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/
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I appreciate what Boris is trying to do: sell slides. Nudes are certainly
a traditional market for higher priced and higher quality images.
Photos of tourist spots and the like were covered by ViewMaster.
I feel that these tiny slides gave people the wrong idea about stereo in
general; that it was only a toy. The Realist is so much better and
I am sure that twin 8"x10"s are probably the best yet.
<BR>The problem that I have found is that a good display system (viewer,
projector, autostereoscopic device) costs a great deal. Like the
monitor that you are using now.
<BR>I have sold copies of my Realist slides. The Copper Lasers shot
on my home page( <A HREF="http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/CVLs.html">http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/CVLs.html</A> ), stuff like
that. It was a great deal of work and it was subsidized heavily by
my time. I did all of my own copy and mounting work. Slides cost
me $2 each and I sold them for $4. Now I publish 321 images
on a CD where the images retail for less than $0.10 per image
It is still work to get images in into JPS. And it is not as
good as the Realist viewer. But boy, it is a big image and it is
pretty darn sharp (check out : <A HREF="http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/amber.html">http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/amber.html</A>)
but such files are large. On a CD there is no problem with 500K jps
compressed from 6M bmps.
<BR>I believe that the jps CD format will be one of the better ways to
market images. At least when people learn again about stereo on the
web they may want film copies.... or even originals!
<BR>I am looking into tourist markets for my CDs, Science & Nature
Stores, etc.
<BR>I am already selling my CDs but in a rather limited way, so far.
I hope to reach a larger market than I could with film.
<BR>Dan's CD was a labor of love and dedication. And a fine collection
of images in a variety of formats. And, from time to time while looking
at the images, I feel like I am surfing on the web. Not downloading,
surfing!
<BR>I would hope that other avid stereo photographers would star<TT>t scanning
in their collections so that we can get stunning full screen high resolution
images in 3D on our PCs through CDs.</TT>
<BR><TT>I wish that others would use the JPS format in general. Then
we could really surf!</TT>
<BR><TT>Hey Boris, maybe we could split the cost of a stamping? Would
this appeal to anyone else? Or maybe include some sampler images
on mine when (if) the market volume justifies stamping?</TT><TT></TT>
<P><TT>John Toeppen</TT>
<BR><TT><A HREF="http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/">http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/</A></TT></HTML>
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