[photo-3d] Re: Subject: Discovery Channel version of the Loreo

["Todd Leghorn" <musclepuppy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>    Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 16:17:45 -0000
>    From: "John Blackwell" <mrmsty@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Discovery Channel version of the Loreo
>
>My camera is an Argus-branded Loreo, but it does have the twist-on
>septum.

Lucky you. My early Argus has the near-worthless suction-cup septum. They 
included a lousy string with the septum that you attached to the camera, and 
even if the septum stays affixed (which won't be for long), the string can 
accidentally stray into view of the lenses. The string's purpose is to catch 
the suction cup septum when it invariably falls off of the camera. I'm 
rubbing in the issue in case anyone decides to buy a Loreo or Argus to *be 
sure* to verify with the dealer before you buy a one of these cameras is 
that it has the twist-on septum. (I've discussed the issue with an otherwise 
reputable and well-known 3D dealer, and their response was that it isn't a 
problem that they are aware of. Yeh, right!)

>The
>result is a lot of accidental ghosting.  (I have photo from Easter
>where a child's face is overlaid with the ghost of a white-framed
>window, and the window doesn't even appear in the image.)
>
>The weird thing about the ghosting, though, is that it comes from the
>opposite side of the camera.  In the example I just mentioned, the
>ghost appears on the left image, but the source of the ghost was more
>than 45 degrees to the right of forward.  I think I might know the
>source of the problem, though.
>

This sounds like an OPPORTUNITY that a scalper/dealer can hark on the 
"psychic network"  message boards: this "extra-dimensional" camera captures 
images of GHOSTS! What a feature to exploit on the gullible! And they will 
BELIEVE it! SEE YOUR OWN GHOSTS! <hah hah hah > (Sorry, I couldn't resist, 
but the suckers' market is BIG in the psychic  community.)

Somewhere on the Web are the procedures someone developed to reduce 
reflections in the Loreo. (The procedures were written a few years ago 
before the introduction of the septum.) Of course, I cannot locate the URL, 
but what I recall is that you have to be *extremely* careful not to paint 
certain specific parts of the mirror. These are front-surfaced mirrors (not 
glass) and they are impractical if not impossible to try to clean if you 
accidentally drip or smudge the mirror surfaces.

In the end, the septum takes care of 95% of reflection problems. Even with 
the septum in place, you do risk an occasional stray bright light source 
striking the mirror and causing a little "glitch" in the corner but no 
ghosts.

My tongue is back in the cheek. Uh, I guess the septum lenshade could be 
re-marketeered as a "ghost filter" to the psychic community. <haha, hah, 
hah, hah>

BEST regards, Todd Leghorn
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