Re: [photo-3d] Format Debate!!

["don lopp" <dlopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Kinderman is not a very good projector for MF Don
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Subject: [photo-3d] Format Debate!!


>   The debate about medium format vs 35mm is following similar lines on
> this group as it did on the 2d groups. Remarkable. Same arguments put
> forth, same defensive postures.
>   I did neglect to mention the problem with projection of medium format
> stereo. Mostly because there is no easy way to do this. There was and is
> nothing made to project medium format pairs mounted in the currently
> available paper-cardboard mounts from Rocky Mountain Memories. Unless
> Paul Talbot knows something I don't!  I do know you could use 2 medium
> format slide projectors synced together. The Hasselblad PCP-80 may be
> suited for this. Be prepared to mortgage your house 3 or 4 times just
> to buy one of these without a lens. A lens may require increasing the
> US national debt to finance it.
>   There are other projectors. Mamiya Pro Cabin series for 6x6 and 6x7,
> the latter being a manual only job. Kinderman makes one, but I have
> never even seen a picture of one of these. I have an old Baush and
> Lomb projector I found under a stack of Ecktagraphics at a camera
> flea market. These are rarer than titanium and no way could you sync
> one with another even if you could find 2 of them.
>   I would also think there are alignment problems associated with
> dual-projectors. I recall reading about this subject on this group
> concerning dual Kodaks for 35mm.
>
>   At any rate, to debate this subject further would pound it into the
> dirt beyond merit.
>
>   Yes, medium format is technically better than 35mm.
>
>   NO, don't run out and sell your Realist!!!
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>   Medium format has problems of its own, size-costs-projection, etc.
>
>   But if you want to play with this stuff and have some fun, YEAH go for
it.
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>   After all, fun is the name of the game.
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> -Fred Sole
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