3D stereopticon Photographs of Rosicrucian Park - San Jose
During our last trip to San Jose
we visited Rosicrucian Park and I took along my new 3D camera and found
the Park had many good subjects to choose from.
With stereo photography you get the best 3D effect by having a strong foreground subject with a farther away background thus emphasizing the distance between them when viewed as stereo. The earliest stereo viewers came from the Victorian era where they were commonly found in the home's parlor and used for family entertainment. Later in the 1950's there was the View Master 3D viewer that viewed a series of images custom mounted on a wheel shaped slide.
Our two eyes see stereo images naturally by having our brain combine the two separate images and making sense of them by creating a perception of depth. Traditional camera use only one len and record the image the same as you would see it with one eye closed.
Stereo camera have two lenses spaced about 4" apart, the same as our eyes. The two images are exposed on the same frame of film resulting in a left and right image that appears as one image when view with a stereo viewer of using freeviewing techniques.
With stereo photography you get the best 3D effect by having a strong foreground subject with a farther away background thus emphasizing the distance between them when viewed as stereo. The earliest stereo viewers came from the Victorian era where they were commonly found in the home's parlor and used for family entertainment. Later in the 1950's there was the View Master 3D viewer that viewed a series of images custom mounted on a wheel shaped slide.
Our two eyes see stereo images naturally by having our brain combine the two separate images and making sense of them by creating a perception of depth. Traditional camera use only one len and record the image the same as you would see it with one eye closed.
Stereo camera have two lenses spaced about 4" apart, the same as our eyes. The two images are exposed on the same frame of film resulting in a left and right image that appears as one image when view with a stereo viewer of using freeviewing techniques.
