Re: Stereo with your SLR!!!

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Berlin writes

>The basic trick is to use two rectangular mirrors next to each other and
>angled slightly so that from a close distance you can see two views of the
>subject by looking into the side by side mirrors. I intended the results for
>my web page and didn't have a very large set of mirrors available, so the
>resulting image in my experiment was rather small.

>I don't recall ever hearing about such a method for stereo photography but
>it's so basic it must have been tried at some point. Anyone hear of it before?
>

I have experimented with the two mirrors side by side also! It works pretty
well. What I have found like you mentioned, is that positioning is a hassle.
There are alot of possiblities with this. I would like to add one more thing
thou. The shots come out as a 3d pair but are reversed as you know, due to
it being a mirror image. This can be remedied with a computer graphic
program very easily. But they don't have to be reversed with a computer or
if taken 
with a regular film camera. The same mirrors used to take the picture can
be used to view the picture! Postion the mirrors to the r 


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