Re: Stereo's Future

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 08 Oct 1997
>From: P3D Lawrence W Kaufman writes:
>....................
>Charlie Piper is noted for saying the photographer takes the picture,
>the camera is just his tool. Today on the newswire was this report:
>
>Half of America Admits Photo Failure!
> The Photography Information Council Launches Massive
> Campaign to Increase "Photo-Literacy"
>
> Half of the American public -- almost 130 million people -- are willing
> to admit that they can't take a decent picture, according to a recent
> survey conducted by the Photography Information Council (PIC). In
> an effort to reduce common picture taking mistakes, PIC is embarking
> on a multi-year campaign to increase America's "photo-literacy," that is,
> enhance the public's knowledge of photography, technologies and equipment.
>........................snip........................
>Sounds like they too are saying , we don't need better cameras,
>just better photographers. Maybe we need to start a "Stereo-
>Literacy Campaign". Dr. T needs to get an "800" number
>so we can have interested consumers call too receive an
>informative brochure!
>

Thanks for the right on target quote. I've often wondered why it requires
such surveys to point out the obvious? I think that folks on this list can
do better than the 800 number idea. We have websites available to help
educate people about picture taking, especially the part about how easy it
is to take stereo pictures. Where there are cameras in use, the users could
be taking stereo pictures. The side benefit is that the fun of stereo
pictures encourages the photographer to figure out basic compositional rules
too. Maybe we could encourage this PIC to publicize the existence of this
enthusiastic photography group with a 3D specialty.

Larry Berlin

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