P3D Re: A few good men...

[abram klooswyk <abram.klooswyk@xxxxxx>]

Bruce Springsteen wrote (P3D 2955, 5 Sep 1998):
> So, if stereo photographers are allowed to own light meters, then why
> not depth meters? (...) [->this is the way to show deletions :-)] 
> Can Ferwerda, McKay, Klooswyk, Bercovitz and all the other > formula-toting
> folk really be just a bunch of time-wasting spoil-sports?

George Themelis answered (P3D 2956, 6 Sep 1998):
> All these are fine gentlemen but seems to me that they are
> better known for their writings than their pictures... :-)
> (if I am wrong I am sure I will be corrected :-))

George Themelis speaks for McKay, Bercovitz speaks for Spicer, 
I will not speak for myself, but if Koo Ferwerda teached us
anything in the Netherlands then it is making pictures and 
showing them. He held stereoshows before he ever wrote on
stereo, he was in fact forced to write a short book in Dutch,
and later was persuaded to expand it in English. I hold vivid 
memories of his shows, which he held in several countries
including the USA. You can buy a short biography 
(Jacobus J. Ferwerda - The Man of 3D), a booklet illustrated 
with 3 VM reels with some of his finest pictures, from 
3D Book Productions, http://www.stereoscopy.com/3d-books.

To tote a tale, I never carry any formula, nor did Koo.
I consider depth meters, spreadsheets and base calculators 
a waste of time ;-). 
To some E=mc2 is an obscure formula or an object for meditation. 
Others visualize it and they see the sun.
It's the same with stereomath.

Abram Klooswyk


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