Cross-eyed stereo pair of wintery hillside. (If you cross your eyes until the two images fuse into one in the center, you'll see the scene in 3D. Clicking on the image will, as always, provide a bigger and more detailed image.)
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Hiya Gregory,
I read your comment on Engadget's post on the 3D camera. I completely agree with you about the two lenses being too close together for anything but bugs-eye-view macro shots.
I have a Vivitar 3D-Cam (aka the Loreo 321), and photos that it takes of people and environments that are directly in front of me have good depth, but I noticed that (for the reasons you described) landscape photos turn out practically two-dimensional unless something happens to be sitting there in the foreground.
Well, I just wanted to say what's up to a fellow crosseye 3D photographer. I have my crosseye pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/minceyfresh/sets/1479353/
You may or may not know, but there's a whole 3D community at Flickr here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/stereo/
What camera(s) do you use to take your photos?
James.
Hey! Good to hear from someone who enjoys 3D. I just used my Fuji Finepix A340. It's an ordinary, single-lens 4MP point-n-shoot camera. I simply take two shots in succession that I align as best I can in the viewfinder. Using a single camera gives me the flexibility to set the parallax however I want, including closer than two lenses could otherwise be placed, to give a truely bug's-eye view of small things. I have a friend who shot stereo pairs from the window of a small plane flying over canyonlands monument, with about a 1/4 mile parallax. He used slide film and viewed them using two handheld slide viewers. It made the most intricate-looking miniature landscapes. The trouble with single-camera stereo is that one can only shoot static things like landscapes. I'd like to try making a wide-parallax pair of weather formations by coordinating with another photographer to take simultaneous, aligned shots that have a huge parallax. I think it'd be interesting to see wall clouds or mammatus or ordinary cumulus rendered as intricate miniatures.
I like the shots you have on Flickr. I'd seen the stereo group there before. In fact, I believe that's what rekindled the urge to shoot some stereo pairs when I went for a walk last fall.
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