P3D Re: Truly immersive 3-D experience?

[aifxtony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Alderson)]

>Bob Aldridge wrote (digest 2787) wrote:
Paul Wing still has his Leep camera, but he says that it was a grossly over
complicated design as far as the electronics in the shutter is concerned.
No longer a useable camera, unfortunately. He has asked me to have a look
at it when I join him and Ed Shaw on their expedition to NSA in Richmond...
I'm hoping to be able to make it a simpler, more limited design, but one
that works!

Incidentally, I've lent Paul my Hassleblad 40mm lens to see if he can make
some sequentials to view in the Leep viewer (the Leep system used around
38mm lenses on medium format film). This experiment should be interesting
because the Hassleblad lens will have much less distortion than the Leep
camera lenses, and one of the cornerstones of the system was that the
viewer had deliberate, opposite distortions to the camera, so the two
cancelled out! We shall see...<

This is very interesting. Please keep us posted on this research.

I have dug out my old LEEP brochures; I'll try to get some stats up in a
few days. I want to do a search of Stereo World and the P3D archives first
(I _knew_ that 3D CD would be useful someday!).



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