P3D Re: Kodachrome VS. E6

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

>I would hate to leave this world not knowing if the thousands of 
>scenes from my life will be appreciated by future generations...

Believe me, I see and appreciate your point of view.  But even
if you shoot Kodachrome exclusively, the chances that your
thousands (especially thousands!) of scenes from your life 
will be appreciated by future generations, are very-very slim.

I have a considerable collection of stereo slides from the '50s.  
I am sure the people who took these would not be very happy if 
they could see what happened to their "life memories".  Thrown
away by their own relatives... sold in a flea market... bought
by a collector of stereo images... thrown in a bunch of shoe
boxes... traded later for money or other slides...

I think the main problem is that future generations cannot figure
out how to deal with the stereo nature of the images.  And if
they cannot figure how to view the stereo slides, they have no
value for them.  The most commonly asked question from owners of 
inherited stereo family slides is this: "How can I make 2D prints 
from them?"  You think I would be happy knowing that the scenes I 
labored to record in stereo turned into crummy 2D prints?  

The bottom line for me is this: I shoot over a thousand of stereo 
slides for me today and not for the future generations.  I'd be 
happy if the future generations dig through my slides and find 
the 20 or so Kodachromes that I shot each a year and keep those.
That's 600 slides over 30 years... I think this is more than
the average stereo camera user shot in the '50s.

George Themelis



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