P3D Re: Stabilizing the X4

[abram klooswyk <abram.klooswyk@xxxxxx>]

Mark Dottle (PHOTO-3D Digest 3481):
>I had to smile as Dr.T described his technique of smashing his
>cheek against the camera and using one viewfinder to
>steady the camera.

George Themelis wrote before (PHOTO-3D Digest 3480):
>(...) I follow this routine:  I use the stereo viewfinder to
>compose and set the camera.  But when the
>time comes to take the picture,
>I flush the camera on the left side of my
>face, looking only through the left lens.

Let's get this smashing and flushing strait:

1) what is the left lens of a stereocamera?
   I would say the lens which takes the picture intended
   to be seen by the left eye.
2) what means 'flush on the left side' ?
   does it mean 'flush away from the left side to the right'
   or 'moving quick to the left side' ?
3) when you move the camera to the left and look through
   the left lens, you obviously use a periscope, to avoid
   looking through the right lens (a secret X4 accessory?)
4) or you hold the camera upside down, with the left
   lens for your left eye .... but no, then the left lens
   would be the right lens.
5) "Realist in the Closet?" Mark Dottle asked
   (PHOTO-3D Digest 3479). Of course, that's the clue!
   Flushing down the X4 (left or right)!

[This brings back the problem of how to tell the aliens
on that planet in outer space what is left and right.
(You can only phone, no pictures available)]
Have fun :-)

Abram Klooswyk