Re: Pre-mount viewer

[P3D John Bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The incomparable Jon Golden writes:

> OK back to the mounting thing....I don't use the gauges....not 
> that they are useless....but with a viewer magnifier system, who 
> needs gauges.....you can ACTIVELY watch the image come in to 
> correct alignment by moving the chips.

Jon, I really can't tell correct alignment by this method.  (Do I 
have a personal problem or _what_?)  Seems like any old placement of 
the chips is OK for my eyes as long as the window doesn't truncate a 
body's torso and infinity isn't spaced excessively more than the 
viewer ocular spacing.  Then I try to project these masterpieces of 
mine and everyone shrieks in pain ('cept for me of course).  So I 
mount infinity to the gauge if infinity is in the view and otherwise 
I'll mount the most distant homologues to infinity, if I have to 
because of depth limitations.  (Due to yet another clever Steve 
Spicer invention, I can mount to infinity when there is no infinity 
in the scene because I have infinity notches in my film gates.  The 
rest of you, who do not have notches in your film gates, can't do 
this.  Neener neneer.  However, you can measure the perf spacing of 
a correctly-mounted pair and that spacing will be the same 
regardless of whether infinity is in your scene or not.)

John B


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