Stereo Camera Design Proposition

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   Thanks Larry for your response.  You mentioned "Basic patent protection
for your ideas and designs must be obtained before you can persuade a 
manufacturer to consider the production of the product."  A patent for a 
Viewer, Film Holder and Camera have been filed and are pending investigation.
It's for this reason that I am now able to talk more freely with you folks
here, even though I may be risking so much, exposing this to so many people 
I do not even know.  However, what I would like to do is find maybe 3 to 5 
from this group and go off-line with a "mail group" who communicates back 
and forth by E-mail with CC's to everyone else in the group.  It would be 
from this tight group that all of the ideas would be shared, all the design 
credits could be recorded, and all of the compensations would be directed to.

    As far as patentability goes, you mentioned "Open discussion on this 
forum might negate the patentability of any specifics derived from the 
process, since the information would have been freely distributed to others, 
in this case, what amounts to the general public."  What I have applied for 
is the idea of a new system of stereography which is an improvement over 
"Prior Art".  The patent has many specifics detailed within it, the group 
I mention here would simply impliment those ideas (with some refinements 
"which do not depart from the spirit of the patent").  What I am looking 
for from this group are details like Focal Length tolerances, film gate 
dimensions for proper window placement, and probably most importantly, 
suggestions for an optical path which images an erect image onto the film,
not an inverted one as is standard practice.  This, you will find, is a 
very important factor in this new camera design!

   John B. mentioned some of the Ideal camera discussions in Photo 3-D.  
Since Tech 3-D started I pretty much quit reading P3-D (since this is why 
I'm here in the first place!).  I will try to look into the archives, but 
I think I have a pretty good idea of what the 1st ideal stereo system will 
have.  But you can't have too much information so I will look into it 
(where is it now?!).

   I am still waiting to hear from others if you are interested in this. 
Of course,  I can't say where this will go or how successfull it will be, 
but if we don't try, there will only be one thing we can be sure of.

John Vala


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