[OT] Stereo images

Nothing to do with Leicas, unless you have one of those very rare LTMs

that shoots stereo pairs, but <a

href="http://www.well.com/user/jimg/stereo/stereo_list.html">this</a>

is fascinating and so simple it's unbelievable. I got the link from

b3ta.com (don't go there unless you're hardened to serious Photoshop

abuse). Oh yeah, some nudity but it's artistic.

Neat..but they kind of make me dizzy.

Cool. Reminds me of holding a hologram in your hand and

rotating it back and forth.

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I've hard about this before and one use was for showing 3d images

to people who have no stereo vision.

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I don't think it will replace medium format 3d for me, or even

the lowly Realist (which has a much longer rangefinder baseline

than Leica's, to try to make this on topic a bit :-)

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Greg E.

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<a href ="http://www.angelfire.com/ca/erker">My 3d page</a>

That's really cool. Wish I'd thought of that. But the best way to enjoy naturalistic '3D' images involves nothing special at all. I've discovered (*this* idea is *mine*! ;-)) that closing one eye when viewing a 2D image makes it feel 3D in a subtle way.

 

Maybe that's because the brain can't tell the difference between a 3D scene and a 2D scene with the information from only one eye, so everything therefore is real or solid. Try watching movies on the big screen this way.

 

This technique works better when the subject in the image is isolated and the rest of the image is out of focus.

Oh, just another thought: this reminds me of so-called 'bullet-time' motion photography, except you're only dealing with two simultaneous exposures, not dozens or hundreds.