Subject: 3D Hummingbirds
Date: 2007-08-15 15:20:41
From: John Hart

Hi guys,

You might be interested to check out some 3D hummingbirds

http://www.stereo3dgallery.net/cgi_bin/gallery/view.cgi

under Landscapes/Nature. Although these were shot with digital and
are low-rez on the web, I'll be soon making some into MF slides via
the MF film-recorder service at www.slides.com . Maybe by the time
the MF folio arrives here :-).

A technical comment: I thought about an advantage of MF in this
application. You need close separation (beamsplitter) and critical
timing. But with MF you could back off and capture a wide field of
view where the birds would be quite small. But since they fly around
so fast and chaotically, you could capture them somewhere in the
frame and crop down to where they are on the film. Nonetheless, the
alternate approach of moving in close and shooting 2000 images to get
a few good ones works too :-).

John

Subject: Re: 3D Hummingbirds
Date: 2007-08-15 15:47:35
From: Bob Schlesinger

Great photos.

Let's see, 2000 MF images with 6 per roll, around $8+ per roll with processing, or around $2700 to photograph some hummingbirds.

But I think what would really hurt would be the carpal tunnel from changing 334 rolls.

So I'd opt for the wide view, or actually I think your choice of digital would be preferred. :-)

Bob Schlesinger

Portland, OR

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On 8/15/2007 at 9:19 PM John Hart wrote:

Hi guys,

You might be interested to check out some 3D hummingbirds

http://www.stereo3d gallery.net/ cgi_bin/gallery/ view.cgi

under Landscapes/Nature. Although these were shot with digital and
are low-rez on the web, I'll be soon making some into MF slides via
the MF film-recorder service at www.slides.com . Maybe by the time
the MF folio arrives here :-).

A technical comment: I thought about an advantage of MF in this
application. You need close separation (beamsplitter) and critical
timing. But with MF you could back off and capture a wide field of
view where the birds would be quite small. But since they fly around
so fast and chaotically, you could capture them somewhere in the
frame and crop down to where they are on the film. Nonetheless, the
alternate approach of moving in close and shooting 2000 images to get
a few good ones works too :-).

John