Re: Nishika/Nimslo, I say it's spinach

[P3D Tony Shapps <call@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <970325005929_47132301@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, P3D
<PTWW@xxxxxxx> writes
>Norm Lehfeldt raises the question:
>
>>Are there other than technical reasons for the Image Tech cameras to use
>>three, rather than four, lenses?
>
>You bet.  Has to do with marketing.  As Eric Drysdale has noted, the "man
>on the street" is likely to make associations like:
>
>>"So, is each of those lenses for one of the dimensions?"
>
>When I explain that my Realist takes 3DDDimensional photos, I've had the
>question asked in a different form:  "Oh, so is that why it has three
>lenses?"  Four lenses in  a 3D camera probably causes confusion to the
>public, but three is readily accepted, so more easily sold.  ;)
>
>Paul Talbot
>
>
Just a quick note as a company who prints both 3 and 4-lens lenticulars.
The problem in the U.K. is that 4-lenses were indelibly associated with
Nimslo,  into which the U.K. Government were 'conned' into sinking
something like 25,000,000 dollars.....it left a bad taste!
-- 
Tony Shapps
http://www.wscreen.demon.co.uk


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