3-D Photography

If you are familiar with the Stereo Realist cameras, you will know about the film strips they took. I have a good-sized collection of these which were sold under the trade name Tru Vues and were coiled into little sleeves and then in boxes. My little ones are stored in specially-made fitted boxes which holds the viewer and the films.

That's what I have a Stereo Realist 3D camera. I got a viewer also. I was inspired by a visit to a couples Baylor Street house in Austin, they have literally tens of thousands of stunning 3d slides from all over the world, they showed us several hundred from India. I was introduced to them by the itinerant artist, Letitia Etheridge. It is on temporary loan to my cottage caretaker, Les Warren. He does photography shows around central Texas and I'm hoping he'll do some nature shots around the cottage out in Cedar Creek. I may do some shots soon, as well. I would imagine you could post these on the web and folks could view them somehow. Do you, Marcia, know of any websites sporting 3d pictures?

Here, in Europe, used and new russian stereo photography equipment is available of fleamarkets - there's even a stereo-projector, but you need special glasses to look through...

Terry, Not off-hand, but I will be delighted to hunt some for you as I have lots more time for that sort of thing than you have. I will post my results ASAP.

Found a bunch, but not sure if these are what you need: Loads of Links here: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Photography/3_D/Exhibits/ lots of links with this one http://www.midcoast.com/~nlund/photo.html this is a guy's gallery http://www.ne.jp/asahi/okuyuki/stereo/index_e.htm

Great I will check them all out and comment after I've done so. Super!

Try this site out for size. http://www.3dphoto.net/stereo/stereo.html The photos on this site are primarily in a format that requires cross-eyed viewing. It sounds worse than it is, and most people can view 3D pictures in this way (unless you have been cross-eyed before or have some other handicap involving one of your eyes). Some people need more time than others to perfect the mechanism, but once you have done so, it is really easy to do. There are, however, other ways to view many of the images on this site- the Anyview Photos, which make up about 1/3 of this site. Free-Vision Fusion (Cross-eyed method) This technique has the advantage of not requiring special viewing equipment. Fusion is the term used for the process for visually merging the left-eye image and the right-eye image into a single 3-dimensional image. When using a viewer, most of the work of achieving the needed abnormal convergence for stereo viewing is done by the optics and design of the stereo viewer. Free-vision fusion requires patience and practice because your willpower and eyes must do the work of the stereo viewer. You must be able to focus where your eyes aren't looking. Place the image in Figure 1 in the center of your screen. Sit at your normal distance. Slowly cross your eyes. You will see a double image, or four dots. Continue to cross until the middle two images overlap. Adjust focus on middle image, keeping the two images overlapped. You should see the blue circle floating above the black circle.

Remember to stare at this picture and let the two pictures float together.

Ready to go to Mars. Try this.

Section 1 - 3-D DDDealers Dr. T - http://home.att.net/~drt-3d Ray Zone - www.ray3dzone.com Jon Golden - 3-D Concepts - www.make3dimages.com Ron Labbe - Studio 3-D - www.studio3d.com Dalia Miller - www.3dstereo.com Steve Berezin - www.berezin.com/3d Rocky Mountain Memories - www.rmm3d.com 3D Development Company - www.representatives.com/3d Antique Photographica - www.stereographica.com/ Widescreen Centre UK - www.widescreen-centre.co.uk/ Stereo Photo World UK - www.stereophotoworld.com/ John Craig - www.craigcamera.com Section 2 - 3DDD Resources www.stereoscopy.com/reel3d/faq.html - Reel 3-D's own Question and Answer Page - Still a great resource to answer your 3-D questions. If you have a question, this is a good place to start!!! www.stereoscopy.com - Your first stop for a great all around 3-D resource site! Lots of information about 3-D, 3-D news, 3-D resources, 3-D Clubs, and even downloads of 3-D software! Also see www.stereoscopy.com/links/ for links to other 3-D web sites. www.isu3d.org/ - The web site of the International Stereoscopic Union (worthy of belonging to just to receive their excellent periodical) www.stereoview.org - The web site of the National Stereoscopic Association (If you only belong to ONE 3-D organization, we suggest this one, at least. Their publication STEREO WORLD is well worth the price of membership! Don't miss us at the annual 3-D convention..) www.stereorealist.com - A good site for Stereo Realist fans, and other stereo information www.cinti.net/~vmmasell/ - The View-Master hobbyists web site www.dddesign.com/3dbydan/3dlinks/default.htm - Dan Shelley's 3-D Links Page. Very extensive! www.rollanet.org/~vbeydler/van/3dlinks.htm - Stereo 3-D Images 3-D Links Page www.stereoeye.jp/ - A Japanese 3-D web site by Takashi Sekitani, Japan www.jim3dlong.com/ - See mind boggling conversions to 3-D of classic and contemporary art - just the way you always imagined it -- in Depth! Includes conversions of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, Jan van Eyck, and much more. Art History in 3-D! http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/APEC/apec.html - The Amateur Photographic Exchange Club. They claim to be "the world's only (as far was we know) stereo photography (3D photography) exchange club". Lots of interesting info and links! www.johnsonshawmuseum.org/ - Trust us. A great site for historic stereo views and information. www.stereoscopicsociety.org.uk/ - We've been members of the Stereoscopic Society in the UK since 1983. The publish a superbly done Journal, and host a wonderful annual convention in the UK every year. If you live near London they also have monthly meetings! www.stereo3d.com - They list themselves as "The independent 3D and Virtual Reality resource!" Many links on this site seem to have gone out of date, but still a very interesting site for information. from the now defunct http://www.stereoscopy.com/reel3d/

these are cool. having trouble viewing because i'm not sure if i'm supposed to look at them like the magic eye stereo pictures (where the picture can't be seen unless you unfocus your eyes)

You have to unfocus your eyes.

my ex could transpose church towers onto other buildings by "unfocusing" his eyes. I never got the hang of it. I also never saw anything in those digital art posters with hidden objects you can see if you unfocus your eyes.

i've been seeing things unfocusing my eyes since i was little and thought i had powers *grin*

Supergirl.