[MF3D.FORUM:15] Re: View camera question

[Stephen Kearney <slk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One of our guys has made a viewer with fairly long lenses and
> front-surface mirrors at 45 degrees.  I have looked in it and the
> wow factor is really there.  I think it beats my medium format
> viewer using slides shot with my old Mamiya pretty handily.
> My viewer has the better lenses but he still gets more detail,
> I think.  I see no grain and I think there is about as much detail
> as I can see, or it's fooling me somehow.

See my page stereo photography projects
(http://www.jkearney.com/~slk/projects.html).

4x5 stereo has more detail and depth, but it comes at a price.  The
camera and viewer are fairly unwieldy, and a stereo pair costs around $8
to shoot and process!  I use it infrequently these days.  I carry around
my Realist or FED most of the time, along with my Sputnik.  But I shoot
around 3x as many pictures in 35mm compared to MF, due to the cost and
convenience.

-Stephen