P3D Re: stretched too far?

[roberts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John W Roberts)]

>Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 17:55:15 -0700
>From: ron labbe <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: P3D stretched too far?

>Boris Starosta writes:
>>For your consideration, I submit Ron Labbe's photo of Leah
>>(http://www.studio3d.com/pages2/people.html), which he has stated (to me in
>>a private communication) was taken with a telephoto (I can't recall the
>>f.l., but it was quite a bit over 80mm).  On the website, cross-viewing,
>>the depth looks exaggerated (stretch), 

Boris, I don't think free-viewing a web page represents "controlled 
conditions". If you move toward or away from the screen, do the images still
appear to be stretched exactly the same amount? If you had a larger or smaller
screen (or images on screen), would that affect the apparent stretch?

>Far too much emphasis, IMHO, on stuff that doesn't matter! How dead can we
>beat this horse? If Leah looks stretched to you, it may not to others (it
>doesn't to me! In fact, the image of Kurt Steel. just above, looks MORE
>stretched to me!) When Dr T first looked at his first stereo images, they
>looked cardboarded- now they don't. Why all the fuss? Stereo is always
>going to be a compromise! I'd much rather look at specific images and talk
>about them (like Boris has begun here) instead of rambling about theory...
>What do others think of the aforementioned images?

They look good. I'm glad the beating of the dead horse caused me to take
notice of them.

John R


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