[photo-3d] MF / window violations!

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Well, I am sure glad for all this medium format talk.  I've not had the
opportunity or reason to join the MF list, and this thread reminds me that
it is high time for me to do so.

Tomorrow I am shooting a session with Betty using a friend's medium format
camera.  (it's a Hasselblad.  Is that a good camera?)  It will be my first
time shooting MF.

My question to the MF crowd, if you don't mind answering, even though I am
not yet on the MF list...

I was planning to shoot with the Hassie on a slide bar, just to simplify my
life, and to minimize film wastage!  But using a slide bar I don't get to
do what I enjoy most, which is toe-in!  So I will be losing quite a bit off
the edges when I want to mount these slides (some of you know I like to get
in close).  From what I recall of the twin aperture MF slide mounts, there
is not a lot of room for shifting chips to set the stereo window.

There is an opportunity to get another 80mm lens for shooting two hassies
side by side (my friend has two bodies, but only one 80 lens.
Cheapskate!), and then I would be able to toe in.  But the session is Fri.
evening, and I'd have to drive an hour to fetch the second lens.  An hour I
can barely spare tomorrow.

(Also, if I am set up for slide rail, as I am presently, I get to try some
other lenses, too - such as the gargantuan 40mm planar summicron varioplex
hypercubic macro something like that.)

The other option is to shoot the cha cha's handheld.  I tried that a bit
today, just handling the camera and running the winder.  But I am not used
to the weight and the motor drive is quite a bit slower than my Ricohs,
which makes the cha chas a bit more difficult.  Also handholding, though it
may allow me toe-in, invariably will introduce other alignment errors,
which is what I am trying to avoid in the first place, because I fear the
6x6 aperture mounts don't give much leeway.

I'd like to be able to mount and sell one or two good originals from the
session.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.  Privately too if you don't want
to bore the list (as badly as I already have with this post.)

Boris

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