P3D Re: Truly immersive 3-D experience?

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Dana Nibby writes:
>Has anyone ever photographed in a large enough slide film format to produce
>a truly immersive 3-D experience - filling one's entire field of vision?<

Tony Alderson writes:
>Yes, there has been.  Some years ago, there was a camera system called the
>LEEP. It used fisheye lenses and (as I recall) 120 roll film.

It sounded like a very interesting system. Too bad it didn't get
of the ground. From what I've read, it used the same basic idea as
in Cinemascope. That is the image is compressed to a suitable
and practical format and then decompressed so that the peripheral
vision is entirely filled (field of view of about 120 degrees).

>Excuse me, but his name escapes me just now! (Howlett? Hewlett??) I think
>he did eventually refund those deposits...

Yep, it is Howlett. Eric Howlett.

>I'm going out of town for a few days, but if there is still interest at the
>end of the week, I'll dig out my files on this camera and post up some more
>info.

For sure, we'd like to know more! It sounded like a very interesting
system. Hopefully it will be resurrected in some other form or another.

P.S. I think there has been some talk about his misfortunes on P3D.

Gabriel


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