[photo-3d] Are beamsplitters crappy?

[Bryan Mumford <bryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sstiles pointed us to the web site http://www.3dquarium.com

I looked at this web site and the sample images. I was struck by my 
dissatisfaction with the images taken with their beamsplitter. It 
leaves a very narrow image space for the stereo pair. I suppose this 
is unavoidable, but I had not seen it demonstrated before. Would 
others agree that beam-split pairs are unsatisfactory? I didn't think 
about it this way before, but I'm getting four times as much picture 
data in two full frame cha-chas than I would get in a single frame 
split image. Maybe a beamsplitter is not a worthwhile project after 
all.


Bryan Mumford
Santa Barbara, California
http://www.bmumford.com