Re: panoramic 3D?

[P3D <PgWhacker@xxxxxxx>]

> Panoramic 3D?

>I was wondering if this was possible, ok it's probably a stupid question
>but that's never stopped me before. ;)
>
>but what I was thinking about was that if there was a camera to do that
>then how would the viewer work?
>
>could you have two panoramic slides on top of each other, with some
>bizzare mirror/lens setup so that the right eye sees the top slide and
>the left eye sees the lower slide?

    Don't know about slides.  You could project them on a wide screen.

   For prints, panoramics are definitely possible.  I've got a few.

  If you don't own an affordable ViewMagic over-and-under viewer, you 
should get one.  You mount 4"-high prints in any width:  right eye sees 
the top print, left eye sees the bottom.  With this setup, you don't see 
unlimited width, and have to move panoramic stereographs side to side to 
see all the view.

   For me,  the ViewMagic has two advantages.  

#1:  it's quick and easy.  No one who comes to my house enjoys 
stereographs as much as I do -- certainly not enough to endure a slide 
show.  With a ViewMagic always out in the library I can strike quickly, 
inflicting 5 or 10 of my latest views in a matter of a minute or so.  
Which seems to be all most folks are ready to take.  The ViewMagic is 
also quick and easy for Helena and me to use:  we keep three VMagic 
viewers out on the library shelf, along with our VMagic stereographs.  So 
when the urge to expand our dimensions sweeps over us, we go in together 
and are immediately enjoying the magic of stereography.
 
      VMagic views are also easy to mount:  take your 35 mm film to 
Safeway, take the 4 x 6" prints out of the envelope, line them up, trim 
the edges, and tape them to the mounting board.  Cheap, quick, easy.

#2:  Great stereo!  VMagic views are lots wider than what you see with a 
Holmes stereograph.  That extra width gives a real punch of extra realism.

   I like stereographs enough I've never wanted to hassle/pay for slides. 
 I get two sets of 4 x 6" prints for the left, 3 for the right eye.  One 
pair is stuck on ViewMagic mounts that same day, the second pair is 
trimmed and mounted to Holmes format in a few days.  The third right eye 
prints (with a date stamp)  goes in the photgraph scrap book.


(I think Rocky Mountain Memories, and Dahlia both sell ViewMagics.  $30 
for viewer, $20 for stand.)







Greg Kane
Denver

PgWhacker@xxxxxxx





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