P3D Re: Need A Life ?

[Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Dottle writes,
>Many TV commercials today are familiar and include long panning scenes
>across the product etc. What if I used a single SLR, tripod, 1/30 sec
>and motor drive/continuous advance to photograph the TV during a
>parallel panning scene. Wouldn't the image appear 3D? :-)
>Of course the pan must be slow enough, not rotational etc. I observe
>scenes all the time that would be stereo worthy using this technique.
>Has anyone attempted this? Or should I be producing these images under
>secrecy, publish my results, and have Dr. T sell the book? Any ideas? (
>on the shot that is...:-))

Been there, done that! ;-)

Seriously, as has been said here, countless of times, everything in 3-D
has been done (or so they say)! When I tried doing this, I thought surely
someone has done this, and sure enough, soon after, I read an article
(from a magazine and/or web site) describing this.

I used a Snappy frame grabber and it works pretty well. You don't even
need a frame grabber, you can also try avi, mpeg, etc. movie files,
downloaded from the internet. It's alot of fun and you can get some
some really great 3-D shots this way. You might try looking for aerial
fly-bys, pulfrich type movies, panning shots, etc. It's guaranteed that
almost any movie, or television show, will yield a 3-D opportunity.

DVD or digital video will give superiour results, and you might remember
the Titanic movie that someone (I forget who) posted here last year.

Gabriel