Re: [photo-3d] LEEP quality

["Don Lopp" <dlopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My guess is that you or your friends have not seen decent medium format
slides such are available in the several M F folios now being circulated
around this country and Canada. I have a LEEP viewer and have viewed a
dozzen LEEP slides and will say again that their quality is about equal ti
stereo slides I have seen that were taken with a Nishika stereo with its
plastic lenses. To say that the LEEP optics-"arecertainly quite good " is a
stretch in my opinion. As I have said before- discussing quality by using E
mail is a lost cause- but I know what I have seen - and the LEEP optics with
their 39 mm fish eye taking lenses are not enhanced by the mediocre acrylic
viewing lenses .Most everything is relative and  believe that  successful
users of

MF would be disappointed by looking at LEEP slides in a LEEP viewer! It was
agood idea, poorly executed and if properly done would be a camera capable
of competing with the RBT especially in terms of quality though projection
is currently a real problem though the ISU people have been successfull in
recent years. DON
----- Original Message -----
From: "ron labbe" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "3D photo EGROUP 3D" <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: [photo-3d] LEEP quality


> Mr Lopp's criticism of the LEEP system is extremely exaggerated.
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> Some people I have shown are totally blown away by my LEEP images (I've
had
> the opportunity to borrow Paul Wing's camera, and I have a viewer). The
> chromatic abberation is mainly on the sides, which should be peripherally
> viewed. I, too, complained at first about this, but it is apparently
nearly
> impossible to correct in these incredibly wide, immersive lenses.
> Images may not be pinsharp, but they are certainly quite good.
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> I will state unequivocally that looking at a LEEP image is the next best
> thing to occupying the original space.
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> ron
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> ron labbe
> studio 3D
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> http://www.studio3d.com
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