[photo-3d] Re: laser surgery

[Mart McCann <mmccann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Kesner writes:

> Actually I decided against laser eye surgery because I
> couldn't accept the 1% failure rate. I am at a point in my
> life where stereo photography is THE most important thing in
> my life - right after my family. I do it for the satisfaction
> I get for myself, but I also really enjoy sharing my work with
> others.

I hope I am not wandering too far off-topic, but the popularity of lasik
surgery has probably caused all of you spectacle-wearers out there to at
least consider it.  As a person in late middle age (thank you, David Lee), I
am tired of contact lenses for distance correction and reading glasses (the
ultimate LOL fashion statement) for close-up vision.  When my husband had
lasik surgery about two years ago, I was thinking about it for myself and
decided to wait and see how it worked for him.  He was able to get something
approaching 20/20 in one eye, but the other remained myopic.  The eye
surgeon recommended getting used to monovision, and that's what he has done.


A couple of days ago, I was finally making a dent in the backlog of
unmounted slides that have accumulated over the past three years or so (hey,
I was busy!).  Every once in a while I would hand him the viewer and say,
"Waddya think of this one?"  After the first couple of slides, he put on his
"cheater" glasses, which have only one lens, and tried again.  When he
handed the viewer back, he remarked, "I had forgotten how spectacular
everything looks in three dimensions.  These are great."  So... no matter
how tempting it might be to ditch the contact lenses, I'm with Dr. Dave on
this issue.  

Back to that backlog of slides...

Martha McCann