I've long been interested in stereo still photography and stereography generally every since I had occasional chats with a photography tutor in London called Andrew Tilberis. (I was more friendly with his younger brother, Fedon, who was a drummer, but met Andrew on a number of occasions, mainly in the pub). He used to teach stereo photography at one of the London art colleges, and showed me his stereo camera and some images on several occasions. However, though I was fascinated by the subject, I never pursued it actively myself, just buying odd book on the subject, or packs of 3D images.

Fast forward to a few months ago, when my practical interest was stimulated by seeing Brian May (Queen guitarist and astrophysicist) talking on the subject. I was fascinated to learn that he'd had an interest in the subject for many years, founded the London Stereoscopic Company, and sells packs of images plus his own designed version of the old Loreo viewer - called an Owl. The Loreo/Owl viewers are designed to view side-by-side images in a 7"x3.5" card format known as the Holmes format, after their proponent, Oliver Wendell Holmes.

By sheer coincidence, I was trawling through eBay and spotted a used Fuji Finepix W1 3D camera - with twin lenses and images, so popped in a bid and got it. The camera images can be downloaded to computer, split into their component left and right images by free software, and then adjusted and printed using a graphics program such as Pixelmator or Photoshop (Pixelmator is much cheaper!).

So, I've also acquired an owl viewer, and have printed off my first 3D images - and great fun they are.

Anyone else with an interest in this topic?