P3D Re: Barriers to Stereoscopic Photography

[Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Norm in S.F." wrote:
> 
> Well, I think you miss the point, Michael.
> 
> What could be more intellectually challenging than learning a foreign
> language?
> 
> What could be more passive and brainless than watching TV?

You really didn't answer my other question as to which you
would buy.  The one that makes the task easy or the one that's
difficult?

I've bought a number of products to try and learn Romanian (my
wife's originally from there) and although none of the products
I purchased were as easy as watching TV (nor claimed to be), some
are impossible attempts at intellectual purity while others are
more pragmatic.  Because this particular language isn't one of
the more popular ones to learn, the 'easy as watching tv' versions
aren't made -- but I wish they were.

The NEEDS of the customers are different.  A CIA agent that wants
to infiltrate needs to know the language like a native and not even
have an accent.  I just want to know how to ask where the water closet is.
A version that would be "as easy as watching TV" (presumably because 
it is a VCR tape and you literally watch TV) would be the *better*
product that makes the fulfilling of my needs easier than having
to take the CIA agent's course.

I don't think "no pain - no gain" should be a *goal*
for anything, including stereo photography.  If one
can come up with an easy way, great!

So, to get back to 3D, are some people using 2D because they
are too lazy to mount their own realist slides?  Perhaps
that is so -- in the sense that they value their time and
energy more than they do 3d'ness.  One may argue that
mounting stereo slides isn't hard.  However that makes
a statement about how much some others value 3d'ness. :-(

Mike K.

P.S. - Not like I'd actually believe the ads about being
       as easy as watching TV even if it's literally true
       ("remote learning" schooling has used TV links to teach
       University courses, so it is literally true that
       learning University courses an be as easy as watching
       TV because that is exactly what the students do!).


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