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Re: [photo-3d] The jig's up


  • From: Dan Wenz <djwenz@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [photo-3d] The jig's up
  • Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:21:30 -0500

From: Dan Wenz <djwenz@xxxxxxxx>

Kenneth Luker wrote:

> From: "Kenneth Luker" <kluker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Mounting with a jig saves time and ensures a uniformly
> aligned product.  But I don't use one, and here's why:
>
> In the final product, the bottom edges of the chips are
> parallel but are not on the same line.  The top and bottom
> edges of the window can be made to appear congruent for
> the pair, and the ever-so-slight vertical disparity caused by
> this fudging is virtually invisible--certainly not as
> distressing as the tilt of a jig-mounted pair would be.
> (RBT mounts also hard-wire the tilt of the camera, unless
> you throw away the mounting pins and with them much of
> the virtue of the RBT in the first place.)
>

(snipped stuff)

But the RBT mounts DO allow some vertical adjustment, I think ), 1 mil at a
time for several steps, don't they?


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