RE: Copying old stereo to new...

[P3D bob wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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|Maybe in the future in Sell-3D there will be a post such as below.
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|1000's of 3Digital images ranging from antique turn of the century
|stereo views to computer created 3d imagery compiled on 1 C3D.
|Format available for viewing is any of the following, stereo pairs,
|anaglyph, or LCS. All hi-res pics and animations included.
|Special bonus, see the antique views morph from one 3D image to
|another. And Colorized! ;-)

Actually, there have been a couple of attempts at this in the
past few years, unfortunately none of which seem to have gotten
off the ground. I'd sure like to see one, though. In my case,
I'd particularly like to see a collection of Civil War views which
at this point have generally become so rare/expensive as to be
beyond my reach.

I might say, however, with the cost of one off CD ROM writers 
now in the range of being affordable by an individual (under $500)
that it's *possible* to do it on a low volume basis (although you'd
be probably limited to making one per day since the CD-R media 
requires between 15 mins and 1/2 hour per disk to write). I'm researching
this subject rather intensively right now for a digital image preservation
project, and have decided that CD-ROM is really the only permanent
digital way to have archives (4 mm tape is too fragile). Media cost
is reasonable, but CD-ROM will be obsoleted in a very short time
with the advent of CD-ROM type RW followed by single sided DVD, followed
by double sided DVD (say in 2001 - which reportedly will store
8.1 Gb (not a typo) on a single 3" disk). However, that's the beauty
of digital - you can copy it without loss of quality however many
times as necessary...).

--BW

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  Thursday, January 23, 1997 09:10 PM
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