P3D Re: Stereocard Making

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:03 PM 7/15/98 , you wrote:
>The print mounting discussion so far has been terrific!  Keep it
>coming!  I'm printing digests and making a notebook for myself. ;-)
>
>Here's another question:  Often when I'm out with the SLR, I'm
>shooting 2D with slide film.  If I see a subject that needs to be 3D,
>I'll do a weight-shift (cha-cha, shoot/shift/shoot, whatever).  I have
>one pair I'd really like to share with the APEC exchange or a print
>circuit, but going from slides to prints is tough.  Mass market
>processing cuts out too much of the image and has quality problems,
>custom processing is too pricey.  And APEC exchanges need many copies
>of the same view.
>
>Is there a middle option in the world of mail-order processing? 
>Should/can you pay a custom processor just to make negatives, with the
>cropping you want, then take the negs to a low-cost print source? 
>Alternatively, can you project slides onto a screen and rephotograph
>them onto print film with SLR & tripod?  Problems with color and
>sharpness would seem to rule that out for the inexperienced.

Have you looked into a slide duplicator tube?  I've been thinking of
getting one for making prints from my Realist slides.  I think it's
basically a tube that fits on your SLR lens, and has a holder and diffuser
for inserting a slide at the far end.  Basically, you take a picture of
your slide onto any kind of film you want.  Duplicates?  Take more pictures.

-pd


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