Re: Viewmaster

[P3D Sam Smith <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Regarding Wolfgang's comment:

>View-Master is still around and doing well, all the others are gone with
>the wind (Realist, TDC, Kodak Stereo Division, etc.). So please don't
>get down on the last large scale 3-D company in the WORLD. They were the
>only ones smart enough to survive. Don't you think if 3-D were a real
>market place for adults that camera shops would still be selling a
>"Realist" style camera. Being SMART and being able to read market
>conditions is a sign of a well run company. View-Master found their
>nitch to survive !!! Where are the others ??????? Maybe the should have
>looked at the toy market.

What a load of Rubbish !!!!

Is " survival" the only essential ingredient to stereo photography? Tyco is
a toy company not a 3-D company at all, and I couldn't give a damn how large
it is. Where are the new viewmaster cameras ? Are their world tour views
still around? No. Viewmaster, or whatever they're called now, has done
NOTHING to improve serious stereo photography since they discontinued the
Mark IV camera in the early seventies.

If these guys were serious about promoting 3D, they'd have more serious
stereographers taking serious subjects as Jamie Drouin is doing.

It's obvious you have a bias to viewmaster because you sell them. I
personally like Viewmaster for what it was, but as far as todays  "product",
I wish they HAD gone under with the rest of them.

The 3D Hacker
website: http://www.barint.on.ca/~sam/imn23d.htm


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