[photo-3d] Re: Realist Prints

["Thom Gillam" <ThomGillam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, markaren@xxxx wrote:

> Printing Realist negs by manually centering the images in the 
> carrier yields an acceptable success rate of 85-90%.

Acceptable to you perhaps.  I don't have such easy access to redo 
unacceptable prints.

> Adjacent overlapped frames will effect the auto readings, but the
> compensation is very simple. Perhaps I take this for granted.  I'll
> accept pairs within a 1/3 to possibly 1/2 stop variance, depending 
> on the shot etc.

Again, acceptable to you perhaps, but I can't tell you how many times 
someone has remarked "There's something wrong with this" when viewing 
unmatched pairs in a scope.  I'm not talking about only 
stereophiliacs® either - even inexperienced viewers have made
similar remarks.  The stereoheads just know why.

I've been around on this too many times to be complacent.  If a 
photofinisher wants my business he'll find a way to do it right, not 
just 'acceptable'.  I'm willing to pay for the service because I know 
that I'll be able to count on them to keep doing it for me: they will 
only continue if they make a profit at it, and anyone doing it for 
$0.39 will find out that in the long run there is no profit to be
made at that rate.  Your 10-15% redos will eat up so much time and 
effort that they (and you, eventually) will stop doing it except as a 
labor of love.  Unfortunately, I don't know any photofinishers who 
love me :^(.

Thom