P3D Re: Stereo Slide Duplication

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

>I too am interested in duplicating my Realist Stereo Slides, and have
>had limited luck.  First off, unless you use slide dup flim, such as
>that that Kodak sells in 135 format 36-exp, you'll wind up with way too
>much contrast, with loss of shadow detail and highlight areas.

There is not much that can be done about this.... Some slides might
benefit from this contrast boost but if you want faithful
duplication then you have to use special films.  An extra problem
is that these films require filtration and that changes from batch
to batch.
    
>I then cut down the resulting images into a film chip size that will fit
>the Realist mounts.  Sometimes it works, other times them images are so
>far off I get eye strain when they're viewed.

Seems that this is only a problem of stereo mounting, not duplication.
Things are easier if you can maintain alignment between the two
chips during duplication.  

I use my SLR camera with bellows and the slide copying unit and 
duplicating film.  It works but it is a pain in the b... so I 
normally only do it for special effects (enlargement, color
correction, exposure correction, etc.).  The quality of the copies
never matches that of the original, so it is better to take more
pictures in the first place!

George Themelis


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