Stereo Realist, plus Burke & James 4x5 Press, plus parents

[Troll]

<p>Mode A shows the girls closer than the guy with the horse in a normal 3-D stereo perspective, where Mode B makes my head ache when I look at it with the images fused.</p>

[cliffmanley]

Here is another one that is very easy to see which is which.<div></div>

[cliffmanley]

Which is it #2<div></div>

[doug grosjean]

<p>Hillary, feel free to use my images if you think it'll help persuade your parents. I've got my doubts it will though, because I've got a hunch they'll say "That's exactly the kind of photo we're afraid of!"</p>

<p>Cliff Manley, you're right. I went back and looked more critically at my Stereo shots posted here. The one of my dad is cross-eyed technique, the one of my step-mom Marty is not. The way I can tell is the subjects' RH ears in these two pics. They should be bigger on the image taken with the LH lens, than they are with the image taken with the RH lens.</p>

<p>And Cliff, I do see the difference in yours. I see it by checking out what lines up with what, between background and foreground. And you make good points about having more stuff in the background to help the 3D effect pop. Thanks! 3D is something I don't play around with quite enough, but I should. It's always fun to get the images back, and fun to look at them.</p>

[Mike Gammill]

<p>Great stuff. Stereo was probably at its peak in the late 50's to early 60's. Great to see a revival since I wasn't really old enough to appreciate it then. There was a brief resurgeance in interest during the 80's when people began taping two single use cameras together or shooting two frames with same camera and repositioning after exposure. For pure simplicity, though, there's nothing like a 35mm stereo camera. I even recall that some really resourceful 3D enthusiasts electronically connected a couple of Olympus XA's to make them fire simultaneously. <br>

Great post. (and thanks, Cliff, for your photos as well. I feel like I could just reach out and feed that horse a sugar cube).</p>

[hillary_charles]

<p>Cliff, in the first pair, Mode A is the parallel pair and Mode B is the cross-eyed pair. In the second set, #1 is the cross-eyed pair and #2 is viewed parallel. When I made my last post, someohow I missed Doug's second stereo pair of his step-mother. That is indeed parallel, and I have not yet learned to view those as I can with cross-eyed stereos.</p>

<p>Here's a way some of get around the either/or situation. Posting the images in a triptych style arranged L-R-L. That way, the first pair can be viewed in parallel and the second pair, cross-eyed. Too bad about the scaling. It looks MUCH BETTER in the viewer.</p>

<p><img src="http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo11/Skylark67/Treat3D2B.jpg" alt="" /></p>

[hillary_charles]

<p>And Doug, my parents' "thirty feet away" rule precludes me from these kinds of shots, most likely regardless how many excellent examples I show them. Their years have given them an abundance of stubbornness! But over the years, I have many great stereo snapshots of them in familiar situations and surroundings. They are priceless to me!</p>