[photo-3d] beamsplitters, twin lenses, Loreo considerations...

["sergio baldissara" <bobongo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Jacob wrote:
> Regarding the new Loreo that is going to be introduced, I did a search and
> found that Loreo has a web site! I didn't find any reference to the new
camera
> but  I did see some other very interesting things there.
>
> They have this interesting inexpensive 10x loupe. Another interesting
thing
> that caught my attention is a lens in a cap, that turns any SLR into a
point
> and shoot. Basically it's a 3 element fixed lens on a lens cap! It might
be
> interesting buying two of these and hacking them into a 3-D adapter for a
> SLR! They say you can use their 10x loupe with it. Hmm, maybe with two
> loupes and hacking the lens in a cap, it might be relatively easy to make
> a very cheap 3-D macro attachment!
> Check the items out at,
> http://www.loreo.com/
>
Leiz built a hypostereo outfit (two twinned lenses in the same barrel) and a
beamsplitter to allow shooting normal stereos... similar lenses &
attachments were built by Zeiss (for Contax), by Nikon (for S models), by
soviet manufacturers (for Fed-1) and by Yahgee for Exacta ... and now are
worth thousands $ in the collectors' market.
IMHO those lens assemblys & attachments had all the advantages of
beamsplitters without some of their limits, like the exaggerated telephoto
perspective and the poor separation of frames.
One could hack two Loreo "Lens'n cap"'s and craft himself a hypostereo
attachment, then find a suitable beamsplitter or craft a beamsplitter.
But the Loreo people showed they own the technolgy and the skill needed for
low-cost wide-angle lenses (as the "Lens'n cap" is) and low-cost
beansplitters (like their 3d camera).
Any chance to see something like a simplified stemar from LOREO?
Sergio
P.S. a Stemar and a sketch can be seen @
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scpf/message/10




 

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