P3D Re: digest 3211 (twin projection)

[JNorman805@xxxxxxx]

George writes:

<< However, I do remember someone who showed up in this list saying that
 taking slides with twin cameras and projecting them with twin projectors
 seems to be a piece of cake, so what was all this fuss about?  Do you? :-)>>

I don't know if that "someone" is me, but quite some time ago I did offer up
my experiences (enjoyable, for the most part) in shooting and projecting twin
35 with two cameras and two carousels.  As I said then, I still am of the
opinion that it's a lot of fun, audiences seem to enjoy it and are usually
generous enough to put up with a substantial amount of necessary adjustment
(especially iof they're not stereo perfectionists).  Like almost everything
else in all aspects of photography, this method involves trade-offs and
compromises.  Now that I own a stereo projector, I much prefer to use that,
even for my twin-35 slides.  But I have no regrets about my earlier forays
into two-projector slide shows, and heartily recommend the method to anyone
who has access to a couple of projectors or can borrow them from different
sources (who dosen't have a carousel or two gathering dust in a closet?) as a
truly satisfying way to experience stereo slide projection.  And I'm an
enthusiastic promotor of crude, entry-level methods as a way of demystifying
stereo and getting more people involved.  After all, my first efforts were
based on taped-together cardboard disposables, with the results mounted on
view cards.  People who saw them in a stereoscope (non-stereo-oids, to be
sure) thought they were just wonderful!  Are two-camera and two-projector
slide shows a "piece of cake"?  Depends on how you look at things.  Sometimes,
the messiest, gooiest, sloppiest cake is the most delicious.
				Jim Norman


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