re: panoramic 3D?

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wolfie writes

>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?

Greg Kane writes

>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.

Yes it's true that ViewMagic is a great way of making panoramic 3D pics.
There is a way with slides also using a mirror and prism gizmo. Dr.T
has mentioned briefly about it and there has been some posts about it
along time ago. Actually Dr.T had it for sale on sell-3d a few days ago.

Here is a description from what he mentions in sell-3d.

>Prism Stereo system, by Tri-Detla Engineering, NJ.
>
>This is a very unusual system.  It is a beamsplitter that fits
>in your regular camera (via series V attachment) and through 
>a combination of mirrors _and_ prisms, splits the full frame 
>horizontally, resulting in a panoramic stereo picture.
>
>Set is in ornignal red box and includes the unit with attached
>polarizers (for projection), the viewer, a demo slide, a few 
>papers (but no instructions), including a puncher plastic guide
>to punch your slides for proper alignment.
>
>This system is unique (see discusssions in earlier digests),
>and in high demand.  It was discussed by Bill Ewald ("Mr.
>Stereo") in the Rochester NSA '96 convention.

(Well I guess that is a new twist, quoting from sell-3d to P3D.
But before I get flamed I would like to say in my defence that I
think the above quote is informative for this forum.)

I think Dr.T has sold it by now, but I have seen it at Rochester
and it was very interesting, coming from a person (me) that has
and likes the Pentax vertical beamsplitter attachment. The one
above that Dr.T mentions, I think, had the possiblity, of projection
also. I would be interested to know if that was the case and anymore
insights on to how good it was really. Dr.T?

Gabriel
       


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