P3D Re: Projection Standards

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

Many apparently good people have contributed to the thread(s) concerning
projection standards, whether or not to adjust during the show, etc. etc.

I presently have essentially zero experience with projection, having seen
only a few of my slides projected.  I feel this gives me special
dispensation to break a few rules, just like I've been doing with my
photography the last nine months.

I look forward to projecting my slides with the stereo window quite aways
off the screen, closer to the viewer.  You may remember a reference to this
idea during the IMAX-3d "Into the Deep" thread a couple of weeks ago.  Any
"experienced" projectionist, would of course want to adjust my slides to
set the window at the screen, which would completely destroy what I had
intended.

As I will be showing 2x2 slides, this setting of the stereo window will be
achieved by simply toeing in the two projectors a bit.

I am not guaranteeing that I will do this.  I do not intend to use an NSA
audience as guinea pigs - at least not anymore than I've tested people's
limits with my exhibited slides thus far.  I plan to put my show into a
friend's two carousel projectors (already set up for stereo), and
experiment with my idea, settle on the "depth" of stereo window placement,
and so on.

Why do I want to do this?  As many of you know, I shoot almost exclusively
close-ups, and even with controlled depth, the disparity in my slides - if
they where "mounted to the screen" - would likely put many points beyond
infinity!  Plus, I would like my presentation to be more close to
orthoscopic, meaning the images should be placed much closer to the
audience than the screen itself.  (In essence, I want to do what they do at
IMAX, but improve on it by supplying a "stereo window.")

I'll probably have to project my show myself - lest the projectionist get a
heart attack!

Feisty,

Boris



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