P3D Re: Making Things Easier?

[Mark Shields <beamsplitter@xxxxxxxx>]

Relax--the freeviewing projection idea is just an experiment.  :-)
And I've pretty well decided not to take it any further anyway.
I did mount up one slide, looked at it myself, and saw it was
good for maybe 4 to 6 people tops, and only if they were
comfortable with cross-eyed freeviewing. I could do it easily,
but by no means comfortable for long periods--my eyes hurt!
Since then, following the directions in the back of the Reel-3D
Nimslo book, I have been able to do parallel better, but somebody
said it wouldn't work for very large images.

A viewer is the only way for now. Impossible to make the room
dark enough for polarized stereo projection. They are very
impressed with what they see in the viewer, especially if the
pictures are of themselves.  :-)  BTW, no disrespect for
View-Master, but these images are much larger and brighter!
Every day there is a "slide for the day," and I hear about
it if I forget! They often look at it for a long time, and
it is like being in line at the water fountain--they complain
if someone else looks at it too long, and some of them go
back two or three times.

Speaking of viewers, I wonder how many people on the list
ever saw a slide in an illuminated beamsplitter viewer.
I was still shooting mostly prints when I got mine from
Dr. T--a Stereo-tach--two D cells, halogen bulb, reflector
painted white. It needed some finishing touches and he
gave me a good price on it. I passed it around for quite
awhile, and people tended to look at slides until the bulb
started smoking! Then I made the illuminator for the Pentax,
which has sharper lenses.

As for the yearbook, I just take the pictures. The editor is
someone else, who is responsible to the principal for finances.
Speaking of which, we are overall about 22% behind budget right
now, which is typical. This is a poor neighborhood, and we have
mountains of leftover yearbooks from years past. Price it over
$1.50 or so and nobody will buy it.  :-(    I don't like it,
but that's life.

Mark Shields

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