Alright.. this one is a little bit nutty.  I hesitated putting this in the folio, but I thought: it’s okay if people see where and how I make mistakes…. and yet it might still be entertaining!

The film had gone bad, probably just from old age.  Both L and R show poor contrast, weak blacks.  The film looks underexposed, though that seems unlikely to happen to me in studio.  And the L and R film shows a slightly different color, both tending too much towards magenta.  So: let that be a lesson to me: stop using twenty year old film!

But worse than these defects is that I shot too close… way, way too close up, given I was shooting with the twin Mamiya 6 rig, which has a stereobase of over 3 inches.  What was I thinking!?  I wanted to have an image that did not include the waist, I just wanted head and shoulders and chest.  I’ve shot that way before doing cha-cha with a motor-drive Hasselblad (baseline of maybe an inch), but here for some reason I thought it would work out with the twin rig.  Silly.  Shooting from farther away might have worked better – if I’d had some longer lenses (e.g. 150 mm).

But still I think the the image is interesting.  Note that even with the far points set at infinity separation – i.e. the edge of her elbow, not four feet away from me, set to infinity separation – the near points could not be brought to be “behind the stereo window.”  So the actual space of her body, which spans a depth of just a foot or 18 inches, in the MF3d view geometry effectively spans five feet to infinity.  There’s a lot of stretch!

This is the way I shot for many years in 35 mm film, using a twin rig of film SLRs.  All those early images of mine look too stretched to me now – but I guess old habits, or old errors die hard.

I hope you can enjoy it anyway.