Re: kodak stereo/TDC European?

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If I have the dates right, the Realist was the first US 35 mm stereo camera
> and was introduced in 1947.  The VM Personal was second and the TDC Vivid
> was the third (but second Realist format camera), introduced in 1952.
> The Kodak did not enter the scene until 1955, three years after the Vivid.

I haven't checked the datelines (although I recall reading the Kodak camera
being released in 1954).  But "that's what he said", best of my recollection.
Many others on this list were at the same talk and if I mis-remembered,
please correct me.

I was just looking at an old TDC ad the other day (with both Colorists
and the Vivid all in the same ad) and although they overlapped all
at one time, they had different start/end dates.  Don't recall what
it was though.  Thought Colorist-1 was the earliest, but may not recall
correctly.  I'll check tonight.

> George Themelis
> 
> PS.  About the "better" 7-p format, I might add that it is perhaps 
> better in projection and not the viewer.  Getting 29 pairs from a
> 36 exp. roll of film (instead of 21) and having the viewer as the
> main means of viewing the results, is a strong marketing incentive
> to pick 5p over 7p, and I don't blame TDC or Kodak for doing so.

Why didn't Kodak want to maximize film sales with a 7P format that
uses more film per photo?  That would have minimized arguements about
8P vs 5p and rectangular vs square, etc.  8p vs 7p would have been
a sissy arguement.  :-) :-)

Maybe the stereo format "failed" because Kodak didn't pick 7P !!

The viewmaster camera already won the images-per-roll contest by a 
huge margin!

Mike K.


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