P3D viewer phobia

[Robert Cruickshank <robcruic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Baired writes:
>ok!  here is my question!!   i find there is a tendency for folks to
>hold the viewer close enough to thier eyes to see the whole image at
>once!!!   is there such a thing as viewer phobia???  do some folks do
>this because they fear getting an eye disease (pink eye) from the las
>person that used this viewer???

I haven't noticed this, although the concept was discussed in rather
gruesome detail a while back (I wear glasses, I'm safe...) however what I
*have* noticed is that many people seem to flip a viewer upside down as
they take it away from their eyes. I don't know how many times I've
watched the slide hit the floor. Now I always hand new people the viewer
saying "don't turn it upside down", just like I have to tell people not
to let the lever snap up on a Viewmaster Model D. Telling them the price
of the Model D usually cures them of that one in a hurry... 




Rob Cruickshank      Toronto, Canada 
www.interlog.com/~robcruic
                



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