Re: ...or why 7-p ain't for me...

[P3D John Bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dr. T of Crazy George's Discount 3D says:

> It might be that the kind of photography that I do (people mostly,
> very little landscape) works better with the square 5-p than with the 
> landscape 7-p.  It might also be that the Realist viewer which I am 
> using is optimized for 5-p and 7-p almost appears too much (I know it 
> is different in projection but I do most of my 3-d viewing in a viewer).

I personally like 7 p very much but here's something to consider 
when projecting it:  The 7 p is about 28 wide and its lens is about 
38 so you should sit 1.3 screen widths away from it.  The 5 p 
is about 22 wide and its lens is about 36 so you should sit about 
1.6 screen widths away from it.  It's _awfully_ darned hard to sit 
1.6 screen widths from a small home screen, let alone 1.3 widths.  
The latter is just about impossible.  So I wouldn't get too excited 
about projecting it at home.  Also, home screens are generally square 
so you waste usable screen area when you project 7 p.

Orthoman (wishing he could afford Crazy George's Belplasca)


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