RE: 3D Wizards

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 
>From: P3D Dan Shelley  writes:
>...................
>My recommendation: Try one and see what you think. The camera and the
>prints will be les than $30, and you can get some really fun images out
>of it!
>

Thanks to NSA 97, I have a 3D Wizard (non-disposable) that I'm experimenting
with. My girlfriend won it at the awards banquet and of course I get to use
it. :-)

It's easy to use and convenient for subjects that are relatively close. I'm
into the third week of waiting for my film to be processed and returned. I
sent them two rolls at the end of July. One other roll I developed locally
and had prints made which I scanned into the computer. I don't think they
are as sharp as I get using a Nikon, but they are nice images and the
results are at least fun. Much easier and more accurate than the weight
shift method!

I was pleasantly surprised how much depth exists from lenses that are so
close together. (hypostereo) Of course most of the subject material I've
chosen has been within 12 feet or so. I'm considering doing local processing
of all film from this camera and send them the negatives later for
lenticular prints. I hate waiting so long for usable results.

Of interest was the evidence of a lack of symmetry in the camera. Since I
had prints made from the film, I laid them all out on a table in triplets.
(3 lenses - 3 prints) Then by cross-viewing I looked at all the images. Each
set of triplets results in two stereo images side by side. What was
surprising is that for a significant proportion of the images, the pair on
one side was more distant than the pair on the other side. This could only
be due to the lenses not being precisely placed. However this did not show
up in all images. I'm at a loss to explain why. There did seem to be a
certain built-in stereo window and closer objects projected in front of the
window, while other pictures were behind the window. In many cases I will
use the outer two images for stereo pairs.

All in all, I recommend the camera so far. It's not the best camera in the
world but for some things it's mighty convenient. I await the lenticular
prints to see what I think of their processing....

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
http://3dzine.simplenet.com/


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