[MF3D.FORUM:1101] Re: Miniturization.

[Mike Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Glickman wrote:

>               The only problem I have with this..... when shooting scenes
> that have subjects from 30ft to 500ft.... wouldn't a 65mm base produce very
> little stereo effect...almost as if you were looking at 2d slides in a
> viewer...of course no one would complain because if its good film and a good
> chrome with a good viewer, then it creates a nice view, not neccessarily a
> strong depth scene, or a scene that makes people say, I feel like I am
> standing in there.  Am I off base here?

Except that it would make you feel as if you were there because
in such scenes, one doesn't see much depth-by-eye either.  :-)

I've some very beautiful (IMO) slides I recently took at the shore 
near Diamond Head (on Oahu, Hawaii) of folk sailboarding.  Used
135mm lenses using miniature format (35mm) film and 75mm lens
spacing.  Depth is very limited, but still is very nice.  I
need to try projection and viewing from the back of the room
to see if it'll look better from there (with exaggeration of
the limited depth).  I'm still quite happy with them.  I
would not have preferred toy sailboards with depth.

Mike K.

P.S. - This thread still needs to get into hyper + longer f.l.
       (what was the term?  Pepax or something like that?).  :-)