P3D Response to Teri

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

>George you are magnificent!  

Teri!  You are embarrassing me in front of everybody!

>At first I thought you were going to scream at me for 
>questioning your authority.  No question about it - 
>you are indeed an authority on this subject.  I am just 
>curious why Larry wants to depart from a technical procedure.

Everyone is an authority around here.  I don't know, when 
did you question my authority?  I admit I have not read most 
of the technical exchanges between Larry, Bruce, etc.  Larry 
has his own wonderful ideas about what this medium is and 
what is supposed to be.  No problem there.  He is an artist.  
Artists are less attracted to stereo for the orthoscopic 
aspect of it.  They create imaginary worlds.  Imagination 
does not run in ortho-mode.  On the other hand, I like to 
take snapshots of my family and vacation.  Ortho rules 
there.  It's like "being there"... you know...  It seems that 
you are artistically inclined.  So you might one day speak 
like Larry, mostly Chinese for me :-)))) (just kidding!)  But 
I would recommend starting simply and expanding from there.

>Bump me up on that list of priorities of yours a number or two,
>will ya?   Dan is sending me anaglyph glasses.  You were going 
>to send me the other cardboard glasses that I need to see parallel 
>slides, right?  And don't forget the slides. 

OK, now everyone knows that I promised you a few slides.  The 
problem is, I promised Tom slides too.  And a few people around 
here are waiting for their stereo cameras and viewers to be
repaired and returned to them.  That's why I have been quiet
lately.  When I post in photo-3d some people will say "look, 
he is wasting his time in p3d, instead of working on my camera!"  
Got it?

Now, back to the viewing issue.  Teri, I am planning to send 
slides and a viewer to view them.  Slides without viewer are 
useless.  These viewers are viewers, not glasses.  The have
two lenses to help each eye focus on the corresponding picture.  
Dan is sending you anaglyph glasses which are used for anaglyph 
prints and many of the pictures in the web.  No one is sending
you polarizing glasses (hey, I can throw in a pair for your 
collection but these will be pretty much useless for now).

>I need and the camera Peter mentioned-the toy, so to speak,(with 
>Wouldn't looking at stereo photos on the computer monitor be like 
>looking at stereo photos on a projection screen?  I thought 
>all I need was a pair of cardboard polarized glasses!   

This camera is a good starting point.  It comes with a viewer,
like a miniature Holmes' viewer.  

Polarized glasses will not help with the computer screen because 
the images are not polarized.  The polarized glasses are used in 
polarized stereo projection on a (metallic) screen.  I can do that 
at home but I use a stereo projector (essentially two projectors 
put together... there are polarizing filters behind each of the two
images, crossed polarized).  The audience puts on their polarizing
glasses and these are oriented so that the right image passes and
is seen only by the right eye and the left image by the left eye.
The technology is old (1940s for cheap plastic polarizing glasses) 
but works wonderfully even today.  Many stereo clubs use polarized 
projection and IMAX theaters too.

>I can afford to buy the Depthcharge glasses and a slide bar, but 
>I don't think I can afford to buy every different format viewer 
>there is out there!  They must be very expensive anyway,  I 
>haven't seen a price on any of them, anywhere.     

Some viewers are really cheap!  Actually, I am going to let you 
keep the viewer I will be sending.  (Please don't tell anyone 
because I cannot afford to send free viewers to my thousands 
of fans out there! :-))))

>Where would I get a Holmes viewer.  Has anyone ever built a 
>reproduction of one?   

Sure!  The one sold by Reel 3-D is a reproduction and it comes in
a kit that you put together.  You can find Reel 3-D under 
stereoscopy.com.  Sounds like you have been visiting there lately.  
Alex Klein is a fine young man :-) and he can help you if you have
problems.

I will ship the slides and viewer as soon as I can get my act 
together.  The little holiday break that's coming up will help.  

Take care,

Your friend -- George a.k.a. DrT