P3D Re: Hockey 3D

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: ron labbe <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


>I, too, have had the opportunity to shoot on the glass. It was
extremely
>difficult due to the glass! I had dual SLRs (it's hardly worth it with
a
>stereo camera) and it was nearly impossible to have both lenses right
at
>the glass to avoid reflections.

The 35mm focal length of your typical stereo camera would not give good
results except when the players were right on the glass in front of you.
Somewhere around 100-200mm would probably be about right.  Longer lenses
would make it difficult to track the action, I'd think.

>They actually had a "photo hole", just
>smaller than a puck, but of course that was only good for one lens! I
>believe I shot ASA 800- metering is tricky due to the abundunce of
white
>ice... I got some decent shots, but the usually one lens was a bit
messy.


Interestingly, the "porthole" for the pros was rectangular in shape, and
would have been ideal for a stereo camera (it's rectangular so he can
stick his huge telephoto lens through at an angle to the glass and shoot
down-ice).  You should have seen him duck everytime the puck came his
way. :-)  One of the visiting Kings actually flipped a puck at the hole
during the warm-up skate, but missed (but not by much!).  The "glass"
(it's actually acrylic) where I was sitting was very scratched, too,
which doesn't help.

>See one at:
>http://www.studio3d.com/pages2/sports.html
>You can see a slight sync poblem on the hockey stick!


Looks better than most of mine.  Nice job!

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)



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