P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3064

[Ronald Beck <ronald-beck@xxxxxx>]

> Perhaps if stereo photos cost exactly the same and were as easy to get
> processed virtually anywhere and didn't require special viewers or
> produce degraded image quality like cheap lenticulars do, then it would
> replace conventional photography as stereo has replaced mono in audio.

Oddly enough, this describes perfectly the Loreo camera I just
acquired.  The cost film and developing is exactly the same as my Konica
SLR.  Only catch is the "special viewer" needed to view in stereo. 
Still, the photo can be viewed normally.  Some folks at work here
couldn't get my Lorngette (sp?) viewer to work properly.

>   "Newspapers had not changed much, not in format.  This one was tabloid
> size, the paper was glazed instead of rough pulp and the illustrations
> were either full color, or black-and-white stereo-- I couldn't puzzle
> out the gimmick on that last.  There had been stereo pictures you could
> look at without a viewer since I was a small child; as a kid I had been
> fascinated by ones used to advertise frozen foods in the '50s.  But
> those had required fairly thick transparent plastic for a grid of tiny
> prisms; these were simply on thin paper.  Yet they had depth."
> 

Again, here today.  We just purchased two cans of Campbell "Rugrats"
chicken soup.  The back of the label is a foil hologram which provides
both depth and motion of Tommy meeting his new little brother Dil at the
hospital.

I guess what would be interesting is the possibility of a one hour
processing system that would take a two or three lens camera photo and
create the foil style hologram.

What might be more interesting is a hand held electronic viewer with
lenticular screen.  You shoot with a digital lenticular camera onto a
memory cartridge you install into the viewer to see the 3D effect.  Only
problem there would be lenticular prints.  Still, very doable with
today's technology.  Kinda like the hand held photo album that the
character Grig had in "The Last Starfighter"

Regards,
Ron


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