Stereo Window

[P3D Dylan The Hippy Wabbit <spacey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory Wageman said

>Dave Spacey summarized:

>>Now this may seem obvious to you old hands, but the thought came as a
>>revelation to me.  In an uncropped stereo pair the stereo window is
>>optically *at infinity.*

>This isn't true for the Realist and other stereo cameras.  The aperture
>masks are offset from the lens centers to create a built-in stereo
>window.  In a sense, the images have been "pre-cropped" by the masks.

>It *is* true for uncropped prints taken with twinned mono cameras.

Oh well, I said I'm a newbie.  ;-)

I've not got to see a stereo camera yet, I'm still using weight-shifting.
I was pleased to see 'The window is at infinity' come up in some one
else's remarks though.

Dave Spacey

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