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----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]> > Stereo slides are amazing and my father took many of them. Yeah, I'll scan em so everyone can have > digipix, but I already took the viewer and restored it (battery had corroded in it but it was > fixable) and will be keeping those boxes for myself one day. > > As for slide shows, a well-edited showing of slides is great but few people do them well. I'll > probably end up with the carousels and the projector so I can enjoy them from time to time. The > digitization is important, in my opinion, so the neices and nephews have some idea of where they > came from and what their grandparents were like. Kids today have no experience with slides or indeed > with almost any imagery beyond movie theatres that is not displayed on a CRT or LCD display, so they > have no reference to "miss" a slideshow. This is akin to the fact that we now have an adult > generation that never experienced LP's. > My father (who was a bit of a "photography nut" in the days when he had money) also owned one of these "stereo" cameras. As I recall, the make was Stereo Realist...and the format simply paired two standard 35mm slide images using a "dual slide" mount. They could be projected, but NOT in 3-D...and NOT by standard slide projectors. However, the images, when properly viewed (as with ViewMaster 3D "discs" and old double-picture "stereographs") certainly add to their impact! We're still waiting for an image/viewer format that will allow the display of true 3D images on existing computer monitors...! Steven C. Barr