P3D Re: Homemade splitter / 1/30 rule

[George Themelis <gthemelis@xxxxxxxxx>]

While I agree with *everything else* that Boris wrote, I tend to
think that this example is rather unfortunate:

> If you can limit depth in your scene (crude example: shooting
> a head & shoulders portrait in front of a wall), you can get 
> away with much more stereobase - or you can get a lot closer 
> than the rule indicates.

The portrait is a very distortion-sensitive subject and needs to
be treated with a lot of respect.  Better safe than sorry.  Less
is almost always better.  Most stereo photographers would use
longer lenses (to keep them further away from the subject) or
use a smaller base with a rather short lens.  Besides, do we
really need to know how far the nose sticks out of the face?

OK with the rest.

George Themelis

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