P3D Re: Shields Himself?

[George Themelis <gthemelis@xxxxxxxxx>]

What DrT is famous for is chatting in photo-3d!  And Mark
Shields is not far behind!

It just pains me to see a young fellow like Mark S. (I assume he
is young...) being restrained, photographically speaking.  I am
amazed at his enthusiasm and ingenuity for stereo.  He says he
does not have time and yet puts countless hours to fine tune his
system and devise inexpensive ways to get better results.  He
claims that he takes pictures for his own enjoyment and that of
his few selected special friends and yet he is known (from past
discussions) to have helped produce a stereo school yearbook has
posted stereo pictures in the Internet and has been talking
about stereo projection.  Obviously he has the same desire that
many of us have to show his work, educate and influence his
community.

It really hurts to hear that he takes full frame cha-cha pairs
and chops them into half, to stick in a single mount so he can
use his beamsplitter viewer to view them.  He is talking about
projecting the beamsplitter pairs side by side and have people
sit in the room freeviewing or using awkward mirror devices to
view them.  Life is much simpler with polarized projection and
the possibilities are endless with his SLR, 35 mm film and the
41x101 or 2x2 mounting and viewing formats.  

Mark S. is an educator. For 150 years people have been inventing
countless educational applications for stereoscopic imaging.  I
have a large collection of educational stereo slides. Some I
created myself... others I borrowed.  I'd be happy to loan
educational stereo images to Mark to share with his students but
we just don't speak the same language.  Mark needs to "get where
the action is"... and the action is definitely not in the
beamsplitter format.  

I heard that the school dropped the stereo yearbook.  Some
people are just not sufficiently impressed with stereo.  Throw
them a stereo projection with images that interest them.  Show
them the endless possibilities and they might change their
mind... and as Mark D. said, maybe they will give you a grant to
advance stereo education.  I see from his signature that he
works in a religious educational institute.  When the assignment
in Detroit was "Spiritual", I created some stunning (for me, not
the judges!) religious images by sandwiching individual images
shot mainly with one SLR.  Perhaps this will impress the
school's officials.  "Jesus in 3D"?  Hmmm... a bit too catchy,
but who knows! :-) (not to mention the many religious boxed
stereo pairs by Keystone et al. that can be copied in slide film
and incorporated into the stereo projection)... As I said, the
possibilities are endless...

To be continued...


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