Beam-splitters and baseball

[P3D <HPOSTER@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lew...you asked about the beam splitters. I sell them, as do most of the
3D-camera dealers, and nearly every collector has one or had one in their
collection.    But quality wise, they stink (in general). Go with a vintage
camera: inexpensively the Realist or Kodak; higher end the F2.8 Realist,
Colorist II, Wollensack, Custom Realist, etc. They're easier to use, better
quality, and more consistent. 
   This is NOT to say, that if you shoot at one particular lenth, lighting,
and subject type, you couldn't set up a beam splitter to do a great,
consistent job, on a modern camera. Just, that if you take the splitter into
the wild, and shoot friends, building, scenery, and maybe some interiors, you
will take a couple of seconds to adjust and fire a Realist, but with the beam
splitter, often there is a big deal in changing between several types of
shots. And, it's so much nicer to look at a 1 inch square image at each eye,
rather than seeing two tall, skinny slides, 1/2 of that. 

   Oh, yes, now about your comment about BASEBALL:
>>For those of you outside the baseball zone, that's 18.44m at 
>>161 km/hr, from bowler to batsman.  It's still only
>>400ms....

   If 18.44 meters doesn't perplex every American reader, I know the "bowler
to batsman" really got to 'em...  :) 

                        Harry Poster........no disclaimers (to speak of)


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