Re: [photo-3d] giga-pixels!

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Davis wrote:
> At 11:19 AM 4/7/2001, you wrote:
> >I don't think any of today's major camera manufacturers has ever done
> >a dedicated stereo camera.
> 
> Do you not count Kodak?
> 

No, I don't.  Kodak is not a major (film) camera manufacturer today.
They make a lot of disposable, and some reusable cameras, but they're
not a company you think of when buying a camera.  Today's major camera
manufacturers are the various Japanese (Nikon, Canon, etc.) and
European (Leica, Hasselblad, etc.) companies.  Kodak got out of the
camera business a long time ago.  There is a segment of camera
manufacturing that American companies have a large share of, but I
don't think you're talking about large format cameras.

> I think the biggest obstacle to stereo photography has always been
> mounting and viewing, not the taking.  Digital stereo could solve
> these problems in a number of ways.  For one thing, there's no
> processing or mounting to worry about.  Also, there's a host of
> possible viewing apparatus, including LCD goggles, "Virtual Boy"
> type left-right monitors, or even just a screen with a lorgnette or
> View-Magic viewer.
> 

I still think display is going to be a problem with digital (stereo or
mono).  If anything there are too many display options for digital
stereo and no standardization that would allow you to remain portable
across platforms.

By the way, there are no line breaks in your message.  I've
reformatted your text to lines less than 72 columns wide.  Hopefully I
haven't lost anything along the way.

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