P3D RBT S1 - I love it! :-), part 3

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

I shot my first roll rather quickly this weekend.  Got it back today.
First quick look over the roll shows that exposures are perfect!!!
Somewhere it has been written that the Hexar tends to underexposure.
But that's not what the other reviewer saw and that's not what I see
in these pictures.  All the pictures were taken in autoexposure mode
and exposure is right on, in every picture.

I picked a couple of pictures taken outdoors in good weather and
mounted them in an RBT 8p mount.  That's the widest mount available
with an opening of 33 mm, as close to full-frame as it gets.  A 
quick look with my 8p Realist viewer shows that alignment and
matching of focal lengths is perfect!  Very impressive.

Now, the final test:  Pick up the Hugo de Wijs viewer.  

Hugo de Wijs viewer???? What is going on here?  I guess I never 
mentioned this, did I? :-)  Well, in the NSA convention I took a look 
through this viewer (Hugo de Wijs Comby STL) that Golden had in his 
room and nearly fainted!  It was the combination of three things:  
Viewer (optics), image and light source.  I left the convention with 
one of the three.  I wish I would have bought the light source too but 
it was as much as the viewer, too much to justify the purchase.  
Maybe next year :-)

The diameter of the wonderful coated lenses in this viewer is 33 mm!!!
You can see the entire width of the widest RBT mount (8p, full frame)
and still have room to spare!  Amazing!  (More about this viewer later)

So, I looked at the RBT S1 slides via this viewer and I am able to see
everything from side to side.  What do I see?   No drop in sharpness.
The pictures are sharp corner to corner!  So, my dream has come true!

Bottom line:  I am happy!

I suspect that some people might be feeling a bit irritated by the
fact that I could afford this camera.  To this I reply:  First I have
paid my dues, 11 years with a Realist :-)  Second, even the best
camera in the world will not give you good stereo pictures.  Maybe
better snapshots, but even that is not sure...  So, stick with what
you have and what you can afford and make the best of it!

I only have one more point to discuss... Use of flash and RBT S1.

-- George Themelis


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