Re: [photo-3d] Stereocard copying

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> If you don't mind my asking, why don't you
>want these images transferred to electronic media?  Jim Harp<   Etc.

Several people have commented on my project of copying old stereo viewcards
with their own view that electronic copying would be more better and more
cost-effective.
>From what I have read on this site and elsewhere, there is only a
cost-benefit to the electronic process if you discount the cost of the
scanner investment, and don't calculate your own time investment as close
to zero. I believe I can put three views in a graphic arts camera frame, go
into the darkroom, extract a sheet of continuous tone copy film from a film
safe, make a 10-15 second exposure and return the film to another paper
safe in less than five minutes. Fiddling with scanning and  image
manipulation and retouching is a bottomless pit time-sink with which I do
not wish to get involved (old age and slow learning curve). As I mentioned,
8 1/2 x 11 glossy prints run $1 apiece if you get ten of them from the same
neg. That's 33.3 cents apiece ... and you can't even get a 4 x 6 pic from a
370 for that, let alone a 5 x 7.
The reason that we're not going with electronic media, though, is that the
view sets we are going to do are designed to be reproductions of the
original view card series, right down to the "book boxes". They'll be b &
w, good for 100+ years, like grandad's. Can the same be guaranteed for the
color output of a 370? Is a CD of New Zealand Through the Stereoscope
likely to appear on e-bay or in an heirlooom auction in 3002? Quentin Burke