P3D Members Only?

[cyponline@xxxxxxxx (Dale Mann)]

Gary Schacker wrote:

>Whatever happened to the Digital 3D list. I'm not even considering
cramming a floppy 
into my Realist!"

Is there such a list?  Or a list of lists? If there is I'd like to sign
up.  Meanwhile, I must ask you, Gary, do you see this as a Realists
user's exclusive club? Or a film only user's club? It certainly wasn't
mentioned when I signed up.

Like each of you, my objective is to support stereo photography, and to
support everyone else working towards that same goal regardless
(underlined) of the format or type of camera they use. The best way for
me to do this, and at least a thousand others who are doing the very same
thing now, is by way of the Internet -- web pages with information and 3D
digital images -- digital images regardless of how they came to be that
way.  In the process some of us are searching for the most affordable and
presentable way to do that -- out-of-pocket.

I salute all the Stereo 3D clubs, large and small, the meetings, and
organizations. Such groups are, after all, the grass roots, the
foundation that has brought 3D interest to where is today. But today 3D
Stereo web sites create more interest in this subject than all the club
meetings, trade shows, and paper publications, in the world, combined --
and the 3D organizations know this, and use the Internet to their
advantage.   It's because of such web pages that many people find their
way to this list, as well as those club meetings and gatherings.  In your
conventions you have the advantage, you see each other face-to-face, but
only those in the room. The world 3D audience gathers in a much larger
space. 

The Internet 3D viewing audience, like the members on this list, are a
multinational, 
multilingual group of  people who share a common interest, and I know of
at least one 
member of this list who must laboriously translate every work that is
written here into his native language to understand what's going on --
all too often, I may add, only to discover he has wasted his time
translating some quarrel among the Americans. And, as an American, I find
it a bit much.

To those in this group who can tolerate those of us who use methods other
than your own, then to you I made this offer. I've made it elsewhere, and
it's time I got around to making it here, and that is to web published
anaglyphs for those of you who want to show some of your work,  but do
not have web sites of your own.   I even offer to assist others in
creating their own stereo supportive web sites -- all for free.  And it
doesn't matter a tinker's damn to me it they use cha-cha, slide bars,
Realist, digital, or stand on their heads while shooting film with
throwaway cameras as long as we all enjoy the results of their efforts.  

I realize 3D web sites can't provide the image quality, or enjoyment of
slide shows, seen in person , but then, to anyone who expects otherwise I
 would say, You're  asking too much.
 
Best Wishes,

--R.D.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5484/3d-0.htm





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