P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3621

[David Kazdan <dxk10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I took some 4x5 color transparency stereo pairs and viewed them over a lightbox
with a ViewMagic.  Stunning.  Having all that detail lets your eye trace smoothly
over contours, and the stereo is like magic.  Highly recommended.

        David


> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:59:00 -0700
> From: "Brown, Fritz              LABS" <brownf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: P3D RE: TechPan B&W: 4x5 stereopairs
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> John Toeppen wrote
> ;I would think that shooting 35mm Realist format TP stereo would get all of
> ;the detail that lenses could deliver.  Properly enlarged onto 4x5 B&W
> ;sheet film one could produce fine larger format B&W transpariencies for
> ;use with a card viewer and lightbox.  A Brewster viewer could be better
> ;yet.
>
> Better yet,  shoot for 4x5 transparencies to begin with.  Tech Pan is
> available in sheet film.   Duping an image, even going to a larger film
> size, is never going to give the resolution you can get from the original.
> I can only imagine what a 4x5 stereo pair would look like.  It would be
> heaven.  The level of detail possible in such an image pair would be an
> experience to behold.  Being that 6x6 is the largest image size I shoot,
> I'll have to relegate that to fantasy for now.  I do know that some people
> are shooting paired 4x5's for printing cards.  Have any of you shot
> transparencies in large format?
>
>  -Fritz M. Brown