[photo-3d] Re: Subject: Computrack lenticular rail info needed

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greetings elliot,

i created my own (non computer/moter driven) track. i was working on a 
shoestring budget...i created it out of corner molding (about $.33 linear 
foot), 2 1/4 nuts & bolts (about $2.50), some silicone, i think called 
"goop",(about $3.75) and elmer's wood glue (about $5.00) and various pieces 
of scrap wood. overall, under $20.00 to make. making my own track gave me 
about 24 linear inches of track. if you wish to re-create a non motor driven 
track, just do what i did.. cut the corner molding to the desired length of 
track (to include room at the end of each side of the track for frame 
articulating devices.) i then glued two pieces of corner molding together 
using 1/4" flat wood pieces at each end keeping each molding 1/4" apart from 
the other. i repeated this process to have a top and bottom half. i then 
glued the top and bottom half together using 1/4" flat wood pieces on each 
side. to keep a 1/4" gap on front, back, top and bottom. with the 1/4" nuts, 
bolts and goop, i created the device on which the camera would be placed and 
slide freely along its track. with a little more wood and goop, i recreated 
an e-z release form to fit in my favorite tripod.

i used this track to create 3d lenticular photographs of the houston skyline 
several years ago...

one thing i would do if i had to do it all over again...create a device at 
the free-end of the track to mount to a leg of the tripod, so that the track 
does not teeter-totter. i might also paint it black to give it a professional 
look. i left mine unpainted and with blue ballpoint marks which determine 
stopping points for each frame. when i walk around nasa's johnson space 
center, or kennedy space center on open house days or invitation days, as i 
have done on occasion, i get the oddest looks with that unfinished track. 
when i do the same with the nishika, i always get a "wow"!

chris maxwell
(in houston)



In a message dated 13-Jan-01 9:11:26 Central Standard Time, 
photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< Message: 2
    Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:03:59 -0800
    From: ers <ers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Subject: Computrack lenticular rail info needed
 
 Did anyone out there pick up one of these when they were available? If so, 
I'd 
 be interested in working out an arrangement for a photocopy of the 
instruction 
 manual. I can figure it out from the ImageTrack rail I have, but the info 
from 
 this specific lenticular rail would save a lot of time.  Thanks, Elliott >>