P3D REALIST to VM?

[John Toeppen <toeppen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why?  I figure that you pay good money for great lenses and bucks for
film.  Why cut down a large frame to make smaller images that can only
be viewed in cheap viewers?  Sounds like a great deal of effort with no
improvement.

I believe that the greatest thing about VM was that it was, and is,
inexpensive enough to be widly available.  Full size Realist copies are
not cheap, even in a strip style viewer.  Few people make copies of
their slides in film, and it is a difficult way to make money. Only the
computer can provide high stereo quality images at a low distribution
cost.  This market is currently small, but maybe people will break out
the $50 and buy wireless shuttered glasses for their PC at
http://www.vrex.com/html/shutter_glasses.htm
or buy the glasses and the software for $80  to make their own pairs at:

http://www.vrex.com/html/dev_studio.htm

I held a couple of wide field Unitron microscope 10x eyepieces in front
of a VM reel the other night.  My nose did not touch the reel, the image
of the film was twice as large, and it was sharp from corner to corner
with no chroma.  On inspection of the VM image there is certainly
resolution in the image beyond what the standard viewer reveals.  It is
this wide field issue that helps so much in creating a totally immersive
3D experience.

John Toeppen
http://home.pacbell.net/toeppen/



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