Re: Stereo's Future

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997
>From: P3D Michael Kersenbrock writes:
>.......................(speaking of film use)....................
>But I don't think it's death is anytime soon.  For the forseeable future,
>digital cameras don't primarily displace film (IMO), they primarily are
used for
>new uses.  The big weakness for film-displacing uses is in the viewing
mechanisms.
>The digital camera's current success is primarily in those uses for which
>it is uniquely qualified.

****  A shovel the size of a spoon is more likely to be used as a spoon than
a gardening or digging instrument.

>................
>In terms of 3D, the viewing system "problems" are even worse.  I ask again:
>if 3D is so great for the mass market why did the market reject it in the
>50's and 60's? 

******  That's an old and dieing horse. The reasons are easy to understand
and can be applied to current efforts with benefit. It certainly did NOT die
out because it was useless. It was more because of new distractions and the
need for improvements to 3D which we are only now attempting.

Larry Berlin

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