[photo-3d] Re: Realist filters et al

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

From: "Dr. George A. Themelis" <drt-3d@xxxxxxx>

Peter tried to post a useful tip in photo-3d and
received this response:

>>The post was NOT appropriate to Photo-3D.  It was just an
>>advertisement which is much more appropriate to Sell-3D 
>>(the site for folks who wish to hawk their wares).  Of course, 
>>the occassional hawking post is okay for Photo-3D but most 
>>folks try to make it fit a current thread or make it a short 
>>response to someone's query.

It is stuff like this that I read and make me act like Mr. 
Hyde.  Do you blame me for that???

>The only thing I wanted to do was sharing some useful (IMHO) 
>tips with the group ! Nothing to sell, nothing to trade.

Yes, Peter, I know... You have posted some very useful
tips in the past too.

>I use the caps of empty film canisters. Cut a round hole in it
>that fits snugly on the lenses of the Realist, Revere or
>whatever. You can press 30-32mm filters, close-up lenses and
>sunshades into the cap. I've created a pair of sunshades, 
>+1 & +2 close-up lenses for the Realist and a set of shades/caps 
>for the Revere so far.

Thanks for the tip.  Now, here is the story behind this:
A few years back someone posted the same exactly tip.
He claimed that the caps of KONICA film canisters fit
perfectly over the Realist lists (after drilling a hole).
(Not every cap of film canister will fit well).

I was the only one who responded to this and offered to buy
all his Konica film canister caps.  I tried it and it works!
I was planning to drill the holes and glue filters and SELL
them to Realist users.  I even put the tip in my Stereo
Realist book, section 7.4 ("Other Filter Ideas"), page 67.

Fig. 7.11 shows a picture of it.  The caption in this
figure reads: "Custom-fitted filters in a Realist.  Start
with a film cap and open a 20mm (3/4") hole so that it
fits over the Realist lens.  Obtain small size filters
(small are preferred so that they do not block the 
viewfinder; shown here is a 43.5mm diameter filter from
Porter's [ref 45] in a clearance sale) and attach them
to the film cap using a hot glue gun.  Presto!"

And now here is the "hawking" part (I don't know what
hawking means, but I get the idea):

YOU CAN GET THIS WONDERFUL REALIST BOOK DIRECTLY FROM ME.

Right now I am running a Dutch auction, which, as I explained
in sell-3d, is not really an auction... the book will be
sold at the regular price.  Here, have a look:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=287352046

If you don't like ebay or auctions, you can buy this directly
from me at the listed price.

Did I hawk too much Mr. Complainer?  Well, sorry about that...
but I dressed it very well with a nice useful tip, didn't I?

Peter, please continue with your useful tips and ignore the
distracting noise or lack of attention which usually 
surrounds them!

Thank you!

George Themelis
mailto:DrT-3d@xxxxxxx

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