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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3236571, member: 19463"]No, the difference would be that if you caused your eyes to not converge at all but just look straight forward so the right eye saw the right image and the left saw the left, the correct image would be the third from the right rather than the second.  This is how I see the set.  My eyes are trained to 'wall' rather than cross from my years as a collector of antique stereo views.  In their day, people bought these cards rather than postcards and enjoyed 3D versions of places they had been.  When photography was new, lack of 3D was seen as a bigger problem than lack of color.  Most people who had cards also had viewer scopes that allowed easy viewing but collectors like me learn to freeview cards to avoid buying poorly made cards with two matching photos and no 3D effect.  An appropriate 'date night' event would be to sit together and look at the viewcard collection.  There are wonderful scenes available today showing the world as tourists saw it 1850-1950 when people started watching TV.Egypt in the 1850's[ATTACH=full]846314[/ATTACH] The Barnum museum after the fire with icicles fire NYC[ATTACH=full]846316[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]