Re: macro photography in museums

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:00 AM 1/6/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Forgive me if I was napping while this was discussed before, but has
>anyone experience with stereo photography of small objects in a museum? 

Small and large!

>What would be useful would be suggestions as to cameras, film, filters,
>tripods, formats, and whatever else might be useful.  

Realist for large.  On-camera flash.  Go as close to the window as
possible to avoid reflections from the flash.  I remember taking a
picture of a prehestoric human in the Museum of Natural History in
Chicago.  It looked like real and was thinking of entering it in
Detroit whent the subject was "Wild" (ended up entering a guy selling
watermelons in a street in Athens, instead... he was wild indeed)
The Realist will focus as close as 4ft and that will work for objects
with not much depth.  Also, small diaramas (?)  They look like
hyperstereos when shot with a Realist.

SLR for small objects.  Have taken some gems here in Cleveland.
I don't recall the details.

George


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