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[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998
>From: fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)
>...................
>>........(Peter Davis writes:)............
>>However, because computers are general-purpose instruments that can be
>used>in many other areas besides stereo imagery, the details of how to use
>the>computer effectively [...]  are considered arcane and irrelevant. 
>
>Bingo!  Photo-3d is *not* the list to teach people how to use computers
>effectively, to, say, send email messages in the Internet (in photo-3d, for
>example) or type letters to the Editor of Stereo World.  (This is my
>personal opinion, anyway)

****  Sorry, but apparently P3D is the list to discuss digital tasks
relating to stereo in every sense in which camera related discussions do. It
may not involve teaching how to use email, but that wasn't Peter's point at
all. There are digital issues related to stereo imagery making, viewing and
manipulating, that are technically involved, but every bit as important to
stereo issues as the arcane and usually long and involved camera related
threads.

>
>>Suppose we were talking about the longevity of magnetic and optical
>>digital storage media.  Would that make it relevent to photo-3d?
>
>I don't know.  Ask the moderators (I am no longer one of "them")
>

*****  If we are supposed to stay on P3D to discuss digital issues relating
to stereo 3D, that would have to include comparisons of storage media just
as validly as film is discussed for cameras. Film is not inherently 3D and
neither are CD's, Zip disks, hard drives, or monitors. Within a context of
3D discussion all those topics should be wide open for use here on P3D
_WITHOUT_ getting zapped by complaints from those who don't know or use
digital technology yet.

The bottom line is that the topic of digital stereo 3D has been *relatively*
poorly explored and seldom discussed on P3D due to the level of static that
arises even when the issues are directly and obviously stereo related,
despite the fact that digital threads often generate a *lot* of interest.
Most often the word *photo* is thrown in for justification of the complaints
as if film and cameras are the only means of obtaining or using a photo.

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
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