[photo-3d] My twin lives!

[John Thurston <gromit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I completed a first pass at my digital twin this weekend and made my
first test shots today during lunch.  I made a quick tweak to the
alignment on the first pair and said to myself, "Oh wow...".  I quickly
tweaked the second set and got the same results.  It hit me as I aligned
the third set and didn't find an image worth keeping.  I have just
progresses from the gee whiz stage.  My pairs have just become
technically "cheap" enough that I don't have to keep them.  

In the past year, with my cameras and slide board, I've been able to
generate about eight pairs that "worked."  Today, with my prototype
twin, I generated a dozen pairs that "worked" in less than 30 minutes. 
It means that I can now work on framing, exposure, and composition
instead of hunting for stationary subjects with a horizontal surface
nearby (for my slide board).  I can now make a stereo pair of just about
any scene I can see.  I can work on making *photographs* just like I do
with my "flat" cameras!

Sorry if this seems like a long post for such a small revelation, but a
world of subjects has just been opened up to me and I can work for
artistic success as well as technical.

John Thurston
Juneau, Alaska
Where technically successful pairs are no longer sufficient.