P3D Re: Digital 3D pics of our new Daughter...

["Dan Shelley" <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Not too long ago, Dan Shelley (the proud father) wrote,
>
>>I did not have a 3D camera with me, so had to suffice with a few still
image
>>captures form a video I shot which I cropped and manipulated into pairs
and
>>anaglyphs. You can see the film-less - yes - digital stereo images at:
>>
>>http://www.dddesign.com/temp/3d
>
>Congrats Dan! She's beautiful!
>
>>No, maybe they aren't film quality, but they will more than suffice, and
are
>>a LOT better than nothing IMHO. =)
>
>Actually the quality is excellent for a videocamera! I take it these were
>not done with a regular 8mm or VHS camcorder. I would guess maybe a hi-8
>or more likely DV?

Actually, it was a HI-8, I wouldn't use anything less...  =) Someday it WILL
be digital. ;-)

Several have asked how I did this. I waited for a moment when she was
sleeping, and therefore not moving. I then videotaped her and _slowly_
panned to the right each time I set up a shot - a la "weight-shift" method -
which gave me the information on tape that would have been recorded by a
stereo camera.

Then, at home, I used my WinTV board which has a video in to capture the
highest possible resolution video snaps from the tape and saved them to the
HD as TIFF files.  I then used Picture Publisher 4 to reduce and clean up
the pictures, then crop them together or make anaglyphs. For the web I
reduced the DPI to 75, but for the stereo cards I printed, I left it at 600
DPI and they look quite nice as well. (not film quality mind you, but OK.)

Any questions,

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan