Re: [tech-3d] Re: Stereo Base Calc. with $20.. Handheld

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Allan goes on:

> [generally, in the mid range,]
>stereo is more appealing when the apparent scale approximates life as we
>know it.  It is for this reason, I believe, that the use of a base close to
>that of our natural eye separation, produces the best psychological response

I would agree this is true, as long as a "normal" (or viewer matched) F.L.
taking lens is used.

Many pictures taken with the RBT zoom cameras - especially action or
wildlife - tend to get taken with longer focal lengths.  These types of
shots tend to look flat (or spatially "compressed" - cardboardy), and I
usually find this unsatisfying.  Possible exceptions are where it is
obvious that there is no other way to get closer to the action - then I
just make believe I am seeing the action through binoculars (as these shots
mimic essentially the same type of optical arrangement).

But I may be in the minority with these preferences.  The two 1st prize
winning images (card and slide) at the PSA Salon this year were of this
long F.L. / small stereobase type.

Boris

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