Re: 3D stereo panoramic Cirkut photography dilemas (fwd)

[s.spicer@xxxxxxxxx]

Somebody wrote (I don't have the original reference):

>Working on Stereo Panoramic Cirkut photography using 2 #8 Cirkut
>cameras to get two prints 8" wide by 5 feet long and laying the images
>on top of each other and getting a 360 degree panoramic view in 3D by
>utilizing a over/under prism mirrored viewer merging the 2 images.  Has
>any body worked out the distance the cameras would have to be separated
> in order to get a 3D panoramic effect.

This made me think about an issue that I think was raised a long time ago.
If you consider a stereo image from a fixed pair of cameras that can cover
a 180 degree field, the effective camera separation drops to zero for
images entering the camera lense from the far left or far right (ie: +/- 90
degrees from on axis). So, the stereo effect diminishes for off-axis
images.

I am probably imagining a camera set-up that is too simple, or maybe there
is some way around this problem. Are there any comments?


Steve Spicer



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