P3D Re: ISU - Cards/slides

[fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)]

>I am not sure whose ox is being gored to inspire this testy 
>remonstrance...

Huh...?  OK, I don't have time to open the dictionary but if you
want to know what bothers me, I will tell you.  It bothers me to
see one person trying to convert every slide-only international
competition to slides & cards and at the same time start cards-
only competitions.  If ISU, an international organization, is
sponsoring a stereo competition why not make it slide and cards
instead of cards only?

>It just confuses the issue to talk about Stereo Theatre 
>presentations featuring copies of cards.  Slides are projected, cards 
>are viewed.

The issue is confused as-is... Slides are viewed too.  As a member
of ISU for a number of years now I only get my stereo fix through
images in Stereoscopy which are prints.  Quite an imbalance...

>In any event, Bill Walton is not the only stereocard enthusiast to 
>applaud ISU's belated but welcome "recognition" of the Original Format!

I am still not sure how ISU has "recognized" stereo prints.  The 
ideal for me would be to have stereo print displays in the Congress,
as NSA does, and open the rest of the activities (for which you
do not have to attend the ISU Congress to enjoy) such as image
exhanges and International stereo competitions, to both prints
and slides.

Goerge Themelis


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