Re: [photo-3d] Sputnik vs. Realist

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In a message dated 6/18/00 10:27:19 PM GMT Daylight Time, Mike Kersenbrock 
writes:

<<  Of all the people doing MF stereo now, what percentage are using
 a sputnik?  My complete WAG is that it'd be way above 50%,
 although I'd infer from your comments that it'd be way under. >>

Well, I started my MF photography with a pair of Hassleblad 500c cameras on a 
bar. This rig was heavy, and needed quite a lot of concentration to get 
decent pairs.

So I got a Sputnik. This was _much_ lighter, but the erganomics still didn't 
really suit me - but I still managed to get some phenomenal images.

So I got a Rolleidoscop. This camera is a beauty. Easy to operate - once you 
get used to the weird f-stop markings! My only real worry is that it's a 
particularly clean example and the case is too good to use! So I risk 
chipping the paint on this camera that was made in 1938 (the date is written 
on the back of the mirror)!

Anyway, it's my theory that the quality of MF images isn't really a function 
of the camera (I challenge anyone to pick out the camera from a selection of 
my slides...) but more of the care that is taken when exposing. Over here, a 
film will cost me £4+ ($6+) and processing is around £5 ($7.5) so that works 
out to £1.5 ($2.25) per exposure without the mounts. You think before you 
press the button. You use a tripod. Tou TAKE CARE!

With a 35mm camera, there are over 20 exposures on a film. So the costs of 
the failures are way down (these don't cost anything to mount - and it's the 
mounts that cost if you are projecting...) so you tend to squirt the camera 
around more. And take less care.

35mm can be VERY good projected. But MF is better! Like someone else that 
posted on this subject, I first saw MF projected at the Eastbourne ISU 
congress. We had two systems there. One was Werner Weiser using the Hugo de 
Wijs projector that he used again at Lindau. I can't remember who the other 
author was, but I think he was using a pair of Rollei projectors.

The images from both were mind blowing. But not slick AV sequences like we 
can now put on with RBT or Carousel projectors.

I'm working on projection of my images - but it means that I'll have to mount 
in separate mounts, but currently I'm hand viewing in a SaturnSlide viewer...

Bob Aldridge
Stereoscopic Society Projectionist