[photo-3d] Re: Stereo Awareness

[charles.barnard@xxxxxxx]

--- In photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx, markaren@xxxx wrote:
>I did not see a single stereo camera, and have not met a single 
>person who new what a stereo camera was! ....<snip>......The last 
>man I spoke with thought my X4 was a panaramic camera, and he 
>thought the Realist was a rangefinder fieldscope, like a binocular 
>of sorts.....asking me to confirm the distance to the monument I was 
>photographing etc. 

I know what you mean.  Though I have never seen anyone here in 
California using a stereo camera in public (besides myself), I am 
amazed at the number of people who figure it out that somehow I am 
taking "special pictures".  They notice the two lenses and usually 
ask about it.  My View-Master Personal camera seems to be the easiest 
for some people to figure out that it is somehow taking 3d pictures.  
My Realist confuses most people with the "lens in the middle". Years 
ago, while photographing a friends wedding with my Nimslo, the 
wedding photographer asked me if the four lenses were for making 
automatic duplicates.  When I explained how I used the first and last 
frames for stereo slides, he replied, "that's alot of film wasted for 
a special effect". That comment still amuses me.