P3D Re: PSSP meeting

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 
>From: fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)
>.................
>On the barrier discussion, Boris you are one step away from proposing
>print film and View-Magic viewers.  Why bother with slides in the first
>place?  Prints are much more user-friendly and familiar to novices.
>Yes, this is a good entry system.  For starters.  Why starters?
>This is the nature of the beast.  Most people start somewhere and then
>move to different directions.  Maybe View-Magic and prints, then 35 mm
>and slides, then Medium Format.  Every system is an entry point to our
>hobby.  No barriers!  Just bridges... I agree with that concept.
>
>George Themelis
>


****  No discussion of future cameras can be complete without the inclusion
of digital concerns. You make a point that prints are a good place for
*beginners* to start. It may be much more important than that. Until we have
high res digital cameras at low cost, the scanner is going to be important
to image handling, and it's less costly to scan prints than slides. You can
achieve better resolution from prints than slides simply due to working from
a larger source.

These factors in addition to easy freeviewing of prints gives an advantage
to print formats in stereo between now and some unknown future time. (I'm
not excluding slides)

Larry Berlin

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