Re: Composing for window effects

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George Themelis wrote:

>Thanks to Paul Talbot for asking some fundamental and basic questions
>on mounting.

Happy to be of service.  ;)

>Regarding the flexibility in manipulating the stereo window using 5P 
>mounts with 5p Realist-format pairs, I have been able to use the 5P 
>mounts and place the stereo window anywhere from 4 ft to infinity.

This is quite surprising to me...but see below.

>I only use 4P mounts if I want to crop the picture, not for setting
>the stereo window.  To achieve this wide range the Realist must not 
>have significant frame overlapping which steals away image space.

Aha!  I suppose we can expand this comment to say the images must not
have been cut in a sloppy fashion that caused loss of image space, as
well!  In ripping apart a number of Kodak-mounted slides, this was a
frequent problem.  The full range of chip spacing adjustment often was
not available.

What causes variation in frame overlapping other than the focus setting?

Thanks, DrT!

Paul Talbot  <----- could fill a whole digest with questions!


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