[photo-3d] Curved Mounts

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>This brings up ignorance on my part. I have always wondered, why the
>curved mounts? The only reason I can come up with, is that by curving
>the mount, the view will be in focus from top to bottom. But what about
>side to side? Maybe it helps reduce glare to a smaller area?

As best as I can tell, there is no universal agreement as to why
the curved mount was adopted. Some think the reasons you mention,
while it may be that the thought was that a curved mount made the
image look more "3D".  One nice thing is that if you are looking
for OLD cards, having a flat, pastel colored mount indicates an
early view. I think the earliest one I have is a pink pastel 
flat with a serial of something like 120 by Kilburn, just labelled
"Dogs" showing some Dalmations, otherwise unremarkable which I got
for 50 cents some years ago...

--THANKS

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   11:42 PM Saturday, March 18, 2000
        Unix/Internet Administrator
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
 



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