Re: [photo-3d] Re: Medium format viewer

["David W. Kesner" <drdave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Talbot writes:

> | I was pretty happy with my Realist until I saw the RBT and what it |
> was capable of, then I had to remortgage my house to buy one. This |
> just isn't an option for most sane people. | | I have been mounting
> some medium format slides for other people | and can't believe what I
> have been missing with my RBT. Now what | am I supposed to do? The
> house is already mortgaged, does that | mean I have to sell the
> Harley?

I guess I have to confess here that was my quote - not too 
many Harley riders that have mortgaged their house for an RBT.

> Although the post does not discuss the viewers being used, I think the
> author can confirm that he was using a good, bright viewer to view his
> RBT slides.

I was using a Realist Red Button viewer modified by Dr. T. to 
view 7p with a frosted halogen bulb. I had also had the 
opportunity to view many 35mm images with the DeWijs Combi 
viewer (although I have never owned one).

There is no comparison between 35mm and MF. Everything that is 
good in 35mm is better in MF - sharpness (lack of grain), 
tonality, size, "immersiveness", etc. The step up to MF is 
significant. Is it more significant than the step up in 35mm 
from a bad plastic steal-the-light-viewer to a quality 
achromat viewer? That's a hard one to answer because that is 
also a significant step. Of course the same can be said for MF 
viewers.

Now to qualify all this - a good 35mm can be significantly 
better that a bad MF. A Realist can take excellent images 
equal to or better than an RBT. It is all relative and depends 
on so many factors.

That's all for now,

David W. Kesner
Boise, Idaho, USA
drdave@xxxxxxxxxx