P3D Re: re: Tips on taking landscape/scenic shots with a Realist?

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

>Dana Nibby wrote:
>
><<Does anyone have any basic on taking good 3-D landscape shots with a
>Realist? I apologize for my ignorant question in advance - I don't know
>much about photography in general, but I'm trying to learn.

If you want to shoot hyper stereo, you could cover one of the lenses for
one "half-frame" exposure, recock the shutter, and move over to another
location (or slide bar over), then take the second "half-pair" through the
other lens.

I've never done this, but the thought came to me - this has probably been
posted before.

><<I've got the normal rangefinder stuff down - finding an object you want
>to take a shot of, then lining the upper and lower frames vertically.
>But what about distant objects/landscapes? Do I just set the rangefinder
>to infinity? Or should I still be focusing on some object in the
>foreground to retain some kind of 3-D effect?
...
Vincent G. Macek replied to this with:
>glance, but the depth can do things a regular camera just can't touch.  I
>recommend a tripod and small aperture settings for maximum sharpness - you

I don't have very much experience with the Stereo Realist yet, but on my
2.8 lens model, I have found the images quite a bit sharper at the larger
apertures - although of course the depth of field is not so good.

So if you do not include very close foreground objects in your landscape,
such as if you are shooting a hyper stereo, you would not need great depth
of field.  In that case, you may well get sharper images using the larger
apertures (like 5.6 or 4.0).

I don't know my Realist well enough yet to be certain that my observation
is strictly correct - i.e. my focus may be off.  But I gather from postings
by the experts on T-3D, and from my own rudimentary knowledge of optics,
that this is how some lenses behave, and it does match my limited
experience with the 2.8 lenses that I have.

Hope that helps,




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