Compact Video Casettes

I believe there was an error in “Recording Your Travel Experiences for the VCR” (Oct. 13). Reference to the new, smaller viedeotape casette used in the compact cam-corders should read “8 millimeter” and not 16 millimeter. The cam-corder tape is about the width of 8 millimeter movie film, and the popular Beta and VHS VCR casette half-inch tape is slightly wider than 16 millimeter movie film.

I enjoyed reading the subject of photography in the Travel Section.

DONALD W. NESBIT Tehachapi