Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1378

[P3D Neil Harrington <nharrington@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul S. Boyer writes:

>IMHO Gregory J. Waheman is correct, that the lenses in a stereo
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>camera are moved very slightly inward in order to place the stereo
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>window.  Several publications have diagrams illustrating the
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>geometry which makes this necessary.  The lenses are not really
>"toed in," but are simply slid inward (by translation, not rotation).

Right.  My use of the expression "toed in" sure seems to be causing a lot of
trouble.  I said it was the fields of view, not the lenses themselves, that
are toed in (or converging).  The lenses are not toed in, for the reasons
previously mentioned.




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