Re: CASCADE STEREOSCOPIC CLUB

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Mike, sometime back, in personal email, you claimed that your frame-splitter
> slides were as good as the slides that you have seen projected in the 
> club... You were very firm in your opinion and we never settled the
> argument.  

I think your summary of what I said could be read in a way unintended
from my original intent, but be that as it may, the limiting factor in
most images I've seen (not in the best of the images, but certainly
for most, including most of mine) hasn't been the technical difference
between the realist and beamsplitter formats or cameras. 

The differences between 'good' and 'better' images have been due to the 
photographer, not the camera.  I am not so good that when I'm using
my beamsplitter that I'm primarily limited by the equipment.  I think
this generally the case for most people.  Of course it's a bit 
hard to compare in the sense of comparing a projected view against
a viewer view because the latter is the only way I've seen my
beamsplitter views thus far.  The number one reason for my going
over to the Realist format was for projection and my purchase of
a projector from Mike Watters that he advertised here on the list.
There may be other advantages gained, but projection was my motivation.

>Have you changed your mind now?  How do you think your best FS
> slides will compare with your Realist ones?

My best "FS Slides" are ones take by a friend of mine using my
camera during my wedding.  No way *any* realist slides or any other
slides will even get close in competition with those!  :-)

If you discount the images for "personal-meaning" reasons, my best
realist format images are better than my beamsplitter ones.  Clearly.

As I've said a number of times , for 
general use, I strongly prefer the Realist format.  I don't think the
format is the primary limiting factor on the quality of my slides -- 
I'm not  anywhere good enough for that to happen (yet) -- but I do 
like it better.  And as I've also posted before, I think my beamsplitter
is what I should and will use for high-speed situations under brightly
lit conditions.  It's superior in that niche.  The fastest shutter
on my realist format cameras is 1/200'th, an order of magnitude slower
than on my SLR.  If one were to have only one system, I'd pick the
Realist over the beamsplitter anyday.  I know you want me to say that
unconditionally, but  until I get a high shutter speed realist format 
camera (or twin'd SLRs), that niche will stay there.  For me at least.

Mike K.


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