Re: [photo-3d] Digest Number 218

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Villwock wrote:
> In a message dated 8/29/00 9:40:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Peter Davis 
> writes:
> > I don't know know that they didn't consider it a hassle.  If they
> >  didn't, then why did anyone invent roll film, or auto-loading, etc.?
> 
> If "they" did consider it a hassle, are "they" and the "anyone" who
> invented roll film, for example, the same person/people?  ;-)
> 

George Eastman (of Eastman Kodak) invented flexible film because he
considered glass plates (not to mention wet plates) to be a hassle to
use in the field.

By the way, I got this information from a Kodak publication (a company
history), so if someone else wants to claim to have invented flexible
film go right ahead.

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