Re: [photo-3d] Camera of choice?

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

It looks like most people list as a camera of choice
a standard stereo camera (it does not really matter
if it is a Realist or a Kodak, they are not very different)

That's my camera of choice too!  I started with a Realist
12 years ago.   Greece, June 1988.  My wife was pregnant
and we were traveling with my mother-in-law.  Went to
Mykonos for a week.  I did not know much about
photography but these first stereo slides were great (and 
they still are and remind me of the "good old times")

My primary interest is family and vacation pictures.  The
standard stereo camera performs great there.  

In 1990, after seeing Allan Griffin's great twin SLR pairs, 
I put two Minolta X-700s together and explored some of 
the possibilities of twin SLRs.  Also, macros with a slide
bar.   More work and more frustration with these rigs
but higher potential for award-winning pictures.

Around 1994 I joined photo-3d, SSA and the Detroit
stereo club.  In 1995 I started entering PSA Salons.  
I have been active in stereo slide-sharing and stereo 
competitions since 1994.  Most awards have come
from twin/single SLR shots.  But the standard stereo
camera is still my camera of choice.

In November of 1998 I got my RBT S1.  This camera has
advanced snapshooting to a professional level!  It makes
it very easy to get sharp & well exposed pictures, just
by pointing the camera and shooting.  You still need to
be thinking about good subjects and good angles to
photograph them.  But the camera will take care of the
technical aspects of a good picture.  

 Last week in the Open competition in Cleveland and
yesterday in the Open competition in Detroit, I had
these entries:

- Model photographed in the PSA convention in Toronto
- Indian Wedding (groom on horse, photographed out
   of the hotel in the same convention in Sept 1999)
- Boat in Baltimore (photographed while on a conference 
   in Oct. 1999)
- Trees (looking up) from a recent YMCA campout with 
   my son
- Looking up at the mast of the boat Constellation in 
   Baltimore from the same Oct. 1999 shooting.
 
What these 5 stereo slides have in common?  They are
all snapshots, taken with my RBT S1 during this last
year and they all won awards in these two stereo club
competitions.

 I am having so much fun with my "standard stereo camera"
these last two years that I have neglected my SLRs.  I have
acquired 3 Pentax bodies and cables for twinning but I have
only use one Pentax.  Why bother when I am getting 
award-winning pictures and great memories of family and
vacation, effortless, with my standard stereo camera?

References:
Realist: http://home.att.net/~drt-3d/toys/realist/
RBT S1:  http://home.att.net/~drt-3d/toys/RBTS1/

George Themelis



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