3D

  • Make Your Own 3-D Camera!

    I was checking out the latest copy of Photo-Era Magazine (the latest I own, anyway) – dated April, 1929 – here’s the cover: It’s chock full of interesting articles on photography – and ads for the latest cameras, including this ad for an unfortunately named Voigtlander.  One of the articles that caught my attention was

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  • Hack Your Brain: Mrs. McKinley in 3D

    I have an old Holmes stereoscope that dates from around 1900 or so.  What’s a stereoscope?  It’s a device that allowed you to look at two side-by-side photographs in such a way that the image appeared to be in 3 dimensions. This is not new technology.  The earliest stereoscopes date from the 1830s.  They were

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  • Immersive Video – the Next Big Thing?

    3-D video is so 2009.  Now that virtually anyone with a couple of cameras (or a YouTube account) is capable of producing relatively decent 3-D videos, people are already starting to look for the Next Big Thing. I think it’s going to be 360 degree immersive.  Like 3-D, some form of the technology has been

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  • The Parallax Experiment

    Given that the current hot topic in home videography is “home 3-D movies” (both camcorders and screens to view them) I thought it would be appropriate to attempt making some 3-D on the “cheap.”  Really cheap. I got the idea from Ashton Kutcher – actually, a video he posted in the Nikon Festival contest.  If

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