P3D Re: STEREO GRAPHIC

[Patrick Boeckstijns <pboeckst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
About my experiences with the STEREO GRAPHIC.
Some may remember my first post to this list about five years ago.
I had just then purchased a WRAY STEREO camera in london and had a lot of
questions about this camera. One of them beiing "How come on one picture
the foreground is out of focus and in the other the background? ". "Who can
please *repair* my brand new camera".
The answer was DEPTHMASTER. 
Many people then responded to my message. It should still be in the archives.
Anyway. I used the camera for several years without problems with 100 ASA,
avoiding extrememy bright conditions. I even took some nice pictures with
it from the window of an airplane, bright sun, bright wing, bright clouds,
bright sky and still a good picture.
I was surprised to see that our brain manages to take the sharp information
from both immages and merge them to one overall sharp immage. Allthough
this is some kind of retinal rivalry it worked for me.
Unfortunatly before this info reached me I had allready dismanteled the
camera and I never wrote down how many shims were initially under each
lensbarrel so I was never able to put it back again exactly as it was :-(
I later got a REALIST from Dr. T. that I'm still using. I also use an ILOCA
RAPID an a VIEW MASTER MARK II. I recently dug up my TECO NIMSLO which was
my very first stereo camera and will (for the first time) try to make somen
lenticulars with it.
It is a camera with very limited options but with a nice "look" and I still
treasure it for sentimental reasons. It was my very first REAL stereo
camera and I vividly remember the exitement I feld when I saw it in the
window of Jessops. 

Regards,

P. BOECKSTIJNS
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL (VUB)
Pleinlaan 2

1050  BRUSSEL

Tel: 32 2 629 2309
Fax: 32 2 629 2362
 


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