Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >stereo images. The Hassey image would be in the middle of the wide 35mm fish-eye shot taken at the same time. > > are you referring to the Fisheye-Elmarit-R 16/2.8 ? > > Pascal > How I wish! No, the "fish eye" is a cheap auxiliary lens that screws onto the front of a regular lens, such as the 50mm. It came along with an SL kit I bought about two years ago and is called a "Spriratone Curvatar Ultra Widangle Aux". Once I took some people closeups with it just for some distorted fun. The sharpness wasn't all that bad, so it would be more than adequate for giving wider perspective on the Hasselblad 80mm aerial shots. BTW, today I received my first full rolls of 70mm Kodak Aerochrome HS (developed by Faulkner Color Lab in San Francisco), shot from altitude in the Dolphin helicopter. I just spent the last hour at the light table with a stereoscope, practically falling into luscious forests and rivers, inspecting people's backyards, and marveling at the symmetry of farm furrows and vineyards. To give you an idea of resolution, from the 1100' altitude, I can easily see a satellite dish focus probe, which is probably about three inches in diameter. An interesting aspect of stereo - observing a pair of images together looks sharper than just looking at one of the images. Does the brain "fill in" when seeing in its normal three dimensional mode? Another person made the same observation. The 3D images are really captivating. I wish there were an easy way to project them in stereo - - now that would make a great slide show! Regards, Gary Todoroff Tree LUGger