Re: Viewmaster

[P3D Mary Ann & Wolfgang Sell <vmmasell@xxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Sam Smith wrote:
> 
> 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 ? 

Ok...show another company that was in business then that is still making
ANY 3-D Product!!!

Are their world tour views
> still around? No.

Yes!!!  Just get a listing from Charley Van Pelt of all the scenic
library titles available!!!  You can also get them from Worldwide
Slides, Christan & Scenic Publications and the N.S.A.  Many attractions
still sell View-Master reels on site.

 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. 

How did the Mark IV help stereo photography?  This was a 2-D camera!!!
> 
> If these guys were serious about promoting 3D, they'd have more serious
> stereographers taking serious subjects as Jamie Drouin is doing.

And who is going to buy these reels, at what cost and how can they
distribute them???  When the N.S.A. can't sell a thousand reels to their
4000+ members who else is going to buy them? Have you bought them?????
It's hard to run a company for 1000 or less people and not go bankrupt.
If you can't see this you know nothing about business. You have to go
where the market is.
> 
> It's obvious you have a bias to viewmaster because you sell them. 

We don't "sell" them, we "collect" them.  We sometimes have duplicates
for sale, but we do not do this as a "business".  Our affection for this
product is something we've come to appreciate since childhood (for me at
least) and has nothing to do with selling 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.

Well, that's one of you.  I still say any 3-D is better than no 3-D at
all!!!  I think View-Master is doing the best they can considering the
marketplace at the present time.  I give "hats off" to Tyco just for
keeping the product alive (they could have discontinued it in 1989 when
they bought the company from View-Master International).  Remember, the
company could not make it as GAF or View-Master/Ideal.  
> 
> The 3D Hacker
> website: http://www.barint.on.ca/~sam/imn23d.htm

Mary Ann Sell
View-Master Fan Forever


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