Re: 3D Color Pic's from B/W QuickCam

[P3D Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>My friend had a Kodak device (which he tore apart) that left me 
>wondering. It was a slide scanner that had three seperate color 
>lens's: Red, Blue, Green. He said the camera element was black and 
>white and that you had to take three pictures of the slide using 
>these lenses. Add the pictures together, with special software, and 
>you had a color digitized picture!
>I was wondering if anyone had done this?

I remember someone on the net that had a web page demonstrating exactly
that, don't remember the URL but from what I saw, yes it was color but
the quality wasn't impressive. Better of spending a few bucks more and
getting the color version.

>Whats more, has anyone used a lowly QuickCam to scan in their Realist
>color slides? I'm kinda worried about the resolution not being high
>enough and also about having to use special lens's to get up close
>pics. I don't know much about lenses (I guess I'll learn). If you've
>done anything like this please let me know how. Thanks....

I have tried just for the fun of it and it's okay. You'll have to
put some kind of lens that you have lying around in front of the quick
cam. The choice of lens is not critical. A loupe or magnifying lens will
work fine. If you want to see a stereo pair (wide-eyed) done in this
way check out an example I put up at
http://generation.net/~jacob/quickcam.jpg
This is from a Realist 5p mount. So yes it is possible but the results
are barely passable. The resolution is not too bad but the contrasts
between the bright and dark areas is more of a detriment. In anycase,
never stopped me from pushing the lower envelope! ;-)

Gabriel


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