Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1930-1949)

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Object distances from camera 60 (in rhos) — ->XB+ REGION _ -^ — _ ^ _ 7717 Region of / \S_ divergence I B REGION \l \ N factors at M= 218 No Ni(ZCL=0) Fig. 11. Graphical analysis of "human vision" technique (i.e., tc fixed at 2.5 in.). For M = 21 8, fe = 50mm, all depth range possibilities are comprised in a series of parallel lines, such as those shown at 10p intervals, in the horizontally shaded region bounded by B = 0. For p values > 60 (distances < 8 ft 4 in.), extend the graph upward; forN> 3, extend it to the right. For/c > 50mm, the parallel lines slope proportionately less steeply, and the depth range decreases ; for fe < 50mm, these lines slope more steeply, and the depth range increases. For M > 218, the region of divergence extends to the right, the intervals N0, NI, N2 . . . becoming proportionately smaller, NI remaining at zc = 0. mission lines on the graph will have the same slope, and must therefore run parallel to one another.* Figure 1 1 displays all the possibilities of such a transmission system, assuming tc = 2.5 in., and taking M = 218 and fe = 50 mm (i.e. 1.97 in.), so as to enable a direct comparison to be made with the shooting of Slate 15 of The Black Swan. Then, from Eq. (8b), * When the focus and convergence are coupled, this statement is not strictly true, for fe is properly the lens-to-film distance, which increases slightly as the lens is focused nearer. Hence, as DI is brought nearer to the camera, the C factor will increase slightly and the depth range will be correspondingly reduced. This is a secondorder error, which is ignored in Fig. 11. D1 2.5 X 6,000 218 X 1.97 X 2.5 rhos 13.97 rhos. This enables us to draw the B = 0 line in Fig. 11, which also shows representative transmission lines drawn in at arbitrary intervals of lOp. The area under the B = Q line represents the B — type of transmission, which gives rise to cardboarding and is therefore almost always undesirable; hence the camera convergence must never be set to give DI less than 13.97p (i.e. di more than 35 ft 9 in.). When the lenses are focused at infinity, they must not, as might be expected, be aligned with their axes parallel; alternatively, if the lens and convergence mechanisms are coupled, the lenses must Spottiswoode, Spottiswoode and Smith: 3-D Photography 277