[photo-3d] stereo as in stereoscopic

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <drt-3d@xxxxxxx>]

> So, how about stereo?  It's obvious what the sound people did to
> that term.  Up until the mid 1950's, if you said that you owned a
> stereo, it meant that you had a stereoscopic camera.  Things change.

I don't think it was the sound people who did it to us.
It was you.  YOU Americans.  With your tendency to
abbreviate everything.  The correct terms are "stereoscopic"
and "stereophonic".  But when you decide to call everything
"stereo" then we have a problem.  Simple "math"....  (when
I first heard - here in the USA - that "math" is used to mean
"mathematics", I almost fainted!)  Since stereophonic is far 
more popular than stereoscopic, then the game is over...

Greeks and I believe French and other European countries
still call it stereoscopic.

DrT (that's short for Georgios Themelopoulopakopoulakis)