Re: kodak stereo/TDC European?

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I agree with what Mike K. wrote about the Kodak but I have a question
> about this:
> 
> >It's realist format.  That camera also "caused" the TDC Vivid camera to be
> >Realist format (rather than European format as was originally intended). 
> 
> Have you read this somewhere?  It is the first time I hear this...

That was from the talk at the NSA '97 dinner.  I had always thought the
cute wrap-around sprocket in the middle of my Vivid camera was a thoughtful
smart method to make the interoccular distance closer to "proper", but actually
it was a hack to realist-ize their already being-tooled european format
camera design.

Story was that they expected the "better" 7-P format would take over as
the standard (so their design was a european format one), but Kodak's 
coming out on the realist's "side" before their camera was released caused
last-minute "fixing" of things over to the Kodak-declared winning side.  :-(

Mike K.


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