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["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I asked my friend Chris Politopoulos <cpolitop@xxxxxxxxxxx> from
Greece to tell me how old he is and how he got started into 3d.
Here is what he wrote (translated from Greek):

"I was born on March 1975.  Got a Wollensak 10 years ago (when I was
14) [ed. I remember telling me that he got it from a Greek who worked 
for many years in the USA and came back to retire... When he passed
away, his widow sold Chris the Wollensak among other cameras.  The 
old guy had told Chris that this was a rare & valuable camera.  
Apparently he shot beam splitter slides...].  

I was interested in plain 2d photography since I was 14.  I started 
with a Zenith.  Then I bought an enlarger to print black and white 
pictures.  I used the bathroom as a darkroom but that did not work 
very well so I moved out in a storage room.  For the first months 
things were working OK until one day I found my bottles and tanks 
eaten by mice :-)  After that I quit the darkroom work.  Maybe I
will continue when I get my own house.

I shot a couple of rolls with the Wollensak but did not have any mounts
or viewers.  I put the two chips next to each other and used a beam
splitter viewer that I got from the same lady.  I was asking people
to tell me about mounts or sending the film abroad but no one knew
anything about it.  Then, one day I was surfing the net and finally
found all you (photo-3d) and some Greek guy called DrT.  [Ed. I met
Chris in person last summer -1997- in Greece; he got a red button 
Realist viewer from me.  He also met with Gabriel later in 1997]

Here I am today with a Wollensak, Realist and FED.  I am thinking 
of getting a slide bar, another Nikon, doing hyperstereo, 3d macros, 
joining ISU, coming to the USA to learn from other stereo photographers.

>From time to time I tell my parents how happy I am that I found
stereo photography.  "Why?" they ask.  Because I can give to others
to see what I saw.  Things that go unnoticed in regular photography
are seen in stereo.  You can tell them "look there".  This is a way
to relax... I grab my cameras ride my motorcycle and go out shooting."

Yeap!  This is a young guy with a bright future!  Maybe the future
president of the (non-existing) Greek Stereoscopic Association?

For the translation -- George Themelis


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