P3D Re: Snapshooting and Realist vs. SLRs

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> >(Note: by "Realist" I mean the system
> >based on stereo cameras, including Belplasca and FED, and slides mounted in
> >the standard American stereo format)
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> That's a pretty loose defination.  That'd make RBTs "realists" too.  It also makes it easy to avoid> what most would say were the drawbacks of the 50's American Format stereo cameras.  (image  
> size, mechanical limitations, optical limitations) by defining any product that is manufactured or 

A phrase that I mentioned to George in my private email response to his "survey"
is applicable I think.

The term is "Realist format compatible".  To me "realist format" is the 5P slide mount
and the Realist system around it.  7P, RBT's, etc are all "Realist format compatible"
or can be used in that fashion.

This kind of verbage is used in other fields semi-successfully in taming
the nit-pickers (like me).  As an example, various non-Microsoft OS's 
have been "DOS Compatible".  Different but inter-workable.  More or less.

> Regarding success, I'll repeat - Having the format in use among a very small group of diehards, I  
> do not feel constitutes success.    

Their current level of success is indeed, very very limited.  It had
been much higher in the past, even if not dominant then.

Mike K.

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