Re: [photo-3d] Re: Next step from Realist?

[Andy Beals <bandy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm with Ron and Dr. T on the "family snaps" situation.  

My father has an album which is 99% un-annotated which I'm going to have to 
bug him to correct.  When I got married [wife 2], my mother gave me the family 
photo album, which was also unannotated.  She also had a video transfer of the 
Harlow family movies from when her father was alive and liked to shoot family 
parties....included among these was a baby shower for me which my father's 
mother attended.  I quickly found out where I got my inclination to goof in 
front of the camera from.

Therefore, my goal is to leave my daughter an annotated family album.  The 
quickest and easiest way I have found to do this is to switch to digital for 
snaps.  I have a nice little program ["Gallery", got it off of the net] which 
builds thumbnails, a click'n'go thumbnail page and lets me attach text to the 
images. See

http://beals.org/~bandy/palm_autographs

for a sample of what it can do from this meganerd's visit to Disneyland last 
year.  [it also has a link to where you can get the program]

So far I have about two years worth of snaps stored [direct from digi and 
photodisk scans from K*d*k] and years worth of negatives.  The next big 
project is to get a good film scanner and digi up everything else, so I can 
start.  I find that I can do about fifty to seventy-five snaps a night before 
I get burned out.


ObStereoPhotographyContent: I'm seriously considering taking my Realist along 
to the Kingdom of the Mouse this year along with the digi.

I'd also jump at the chance to get my hands on a stereo digi system.  Hm.  
Open-format jps file output, LCS glasses for viewing [do they work on laptop 
displays???] or something that isn't too difficult to use [heck, even color 
anaglyphs would be cool], zoom not really necessary, and removable 
high-density storage [smartmedia [love it] or compact flash, I don't really 
care].  I would so be there.  Heck, if someone pointed out a viewing system 
that is easy to use and relatively cheap [e.g. keep at least two pair of 
glasses for use at home], I could whip together software to build image files 
given pairs of inputs...


I find that I'm shooting a lot more with the digi than I had settled down to 
with 35mm [and shoot more 35 than 120 of course].  Cost must be there in the 
back of my mind, as well as ease of use.  With Gallery, I just copy everything 
to a directory/folder, run the program and badabing the "difficult" work is 
done.  The annotations I can do right then or knock off here and there at a 
later date.



	Andy "Family Snaps Rule!" Beals