Re: New 3D business opportunity

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Berlin replied in answer to my open question as to how to view
digitally-captured images anywhere:

>Ever hear of color printers? Or digital to film transfers? Digital is the
>best of both worlds if the input resolution can be improved, which is
>obviously happening. Resolution is the only current significant drawback to
>digital stereo.

This one had me laughing out loud.  Here it is, the ultimate irony:

Digital stereo camera -> 250MHz Pentium II computer -> Ultra-high-res
Dye-sub digital printer -> View result in 1890's Holmes stereoscope!

(Your point about the flexibility afforded by the digital image is
not lost on me.  I agree with most everything you said.  When the
image capture technology catches up to film resolution, there will be
no reason not to go that route.  I just found the above mental image
hillarious.)

Also, I might add, the question was asked in the context of remaining
in the digital realm, not going to hard copy.  If hard copy is the goal,
I would start and end with film, and bypass the computer entirely.  This
will continue to be entirely acceptable for "normal" images (i.e. ones
that don't require special processing).

	-Greg W.


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