BS: Anyone do stereo photography?

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone do stereo photography?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 12:17 PM

My Dad was a semi pro photographer when I was a toddler back in the early 60's.

He acquired a black metal stereoscopic camera to try out.

To my childs eyes it looked like a futuristic tank or sumbmarine battle machine
like off Stingray or Thunderbirds.

Next time he went to use that camera he found it battered and in pieces
after I'd played with it in the back garden
to fight an intergalactic war with my airfix soldiers....

When I was a student in the early 80's I followed in his footsteps
and became seriously interested in stereo photographic applications,
but was too over occupied with live music, drinking, and girls
to ever get round to actually sorting out the equipment to make my own 3D photos.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone do stereo photography?
From: open mike
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 12:16 PM

I have trouble seeing stereo images, but my father was quite a fan of stereo foto. He had several cameras. Sometimes he would accentuate the 3-d images when taking landscape fotos by alternately closing off one of the lenses while walking to a point farther to the side of the first image.

I may have saved several of his cameras from the fire that destroyed my house, and may be interested in selling them. Possibly the film type they used is nolonger availbe, and may have gone the way of the Kodachrome....

He used to be a member of a stereo club that would send their stereo slides around to all the members, and critiquing the images. They called this a round robin...

i used to have a stereo card viewer as well as a slide viewer for stero slides..
here are some links..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
http://www.stereoscopy.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone do stereo photography?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 12:10 PM

Bit of thread creep, maybe, but on the subject of photography (just!)...David Hockney uses a rig of 9 video cameras (3x3), with slightly different forward views, mounted on the roof of a vehicle! He then vidoes the same subject, e.g. a country lane, at different times during the year and shows two of the resulting vidoes side by side (so 6x3 images).

He has a major show at the Royal Academy in London, January to April see here), where they'll be projected.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone do stereo photography?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 11:31 AM

Yes - I was trying that out this afternoon - allowing the eyes to blur slightly and letting the stereo image appear.

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone do stereo photography?
From: Newport Boy
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:38 AM

Never tried creating stereo pairs, but I can still view them without a viewer. I was taught the trick 50 years ago, looking at stereo aerial photos in a survey book.

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Anyone do stereo photography?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:27 AM

No but I saw a stereo camera in a local camera shop last week.

Subject: BS: Anyone do stereo photography?
From: Will Fly
Date: 12 Nov 11 - 10:13 AM

Being an occasional photography buff, I was fascinated to read about the Holga Stereo Pinhole Camera which, while taking photography back to basics (no lens, just a pinhole), allows stereo photographs to be made in true 19th century fashion. Sounds fascinating, and fun - and comparatively cheap.

Has anyone played around with stereo photography at all?