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

["don lopp" <dlopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So far I have built 6 MF cameras, I am still not satisfied- I guess I am
zxpecting too much  as I use the Rolleidoscope  most of the time But I had
to make a decent view finder for it, also I had to make filter friendly as I
use filters 90% of the time, I also changed the f stop so that it reads f8,
f11,f16,f22,and f32 etc I also changed it to feet with a depth of focus
scale. These "improvements" have probably ruined its collectors value buy a
bit, but I am a user not a collector! My main gripe is that in my opinion
 probably a broken reccord }is that I get much better pictures with the
Rolleidoscope camera thn  my Sputnik camera and don't think the Sputnik
should be held up as an example of MF Except when comparing it with mediocre
35 mm stereo cameras which also have sharpness problems. Having taken
pictures both MF and 35mm at the same time and place I put 35mm as being not
much better than  View Master With the exception being that 35mm projects
quite well and I have never seen MF projected but hear that it does quite
well also and am dissappointed that one must  go to Europe to see it done.
It is to bad that NSA could not get its head out of the sand and look ahead
but it will probably skip MF and get bogged down in digital 3D! Don.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Deering" <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [photo-3d] Sputnik vs. Realist


> On 6/18/00, Mike Kersenbrock wrote:
> >don lopp wrote:
> >>
> >> I am getting a bit tired of hearing the never ending bit refering to M
F and
> >> SPUTNIK AS BEING ONE AND THE SAME THING . I HAVE SEEN FEW  Sputniks
that are
> >> useable even at f 22 by my standards though  at the present it is the
only
> >> game in town outside of making your own. Don
> >
> >What else could one say?  You yourself say Sputnik's "the only
> >game in town".
>
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> Not true.
>
> He said it was the "only game in town outside of making your own."
> Many MF photographers take this next logical step, so this
> distinction is a significant one.
>
> I bought a Sputnik AFTER making my own MF camera, but I've been
> accused of being backwards.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
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