P3D Re: wet toes winner.

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

>Bill Stickley has won the Wet Toes contest!  

Congratulations Bill!

>I regret to say that no one entry was entirely correct.  This is partly my
>fault, because it was my intention to somewhat mislead all contestants.

You cheater! :-)  Seriously, I don't think you mislead anyone.
As I mentioned in private correspondence, I tried to detect distortion 
by using a ruler and connecting two points in the outer pictures and
seeing if the middle one falls in line or not.  I was not able to 
positively see any distortion.  I would like to hear how people went
about finding it... 

>I am not using
>convergence just to irritate the old wise men (and women) of stereo
>photography.  I understand keystoning, and would certainly prefer to avoid
>it.  But the fact is, if I shoot close up subjects with a vertical twin
>rig, I HAVE to use convergence in the cameras to get a full frame 35mm
>slide pair.  

Yes Boris, we do understand and we forgive you. :-)

>(That's not entirely true.  Given enough money, I could get a
>pair of shift/tilt lenses to be used on 35mm SLR camera bodies.  I could
>shift these "in" a bit, to create a stereo window "in camera" without
>keystone distortion.) 

OR, you could simply buy a Realist! :-) :-) :-) At a fraction of the cost 
of one shift/tilt lens.  You know, the Realist creates the stereo window
"in camera"...

Just kiddding!!! -- George Themelis


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