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What did you use to photograph those 3D photos? I use a pair of matched digital cameras mounted together.

Making new stereoview photos of still objects is fairly easy. It only requires one decent camera, some simple rules and a few minutes of Photoshop. The basics are a steady source of light, fixed exposure, white balance, and focus.

Curt A wrote:What did you use to photograph those 3D photos? I use a pair of matched digital cameras mounted together.

I mounted two homebrew eyepiece cameras onto a stereo microscope. I found some used 3MP industrial cameras on eBay that are basically sensors mounted on a circuit board; they had c-mount collars to hold a lens. I replaced their lenses with .5x photo relay lenses, also found on eBay. You could buy ready made microscope cameras, but at much greater cost. Synchronizing the focus and alignment of the cameras is critical. After capturing the left and right images onto my computer, I used a free program called StereoPhotoMaker to tweak and combine the images. This microscope has 4x stereo objectives, but I have others more powerful. The cameras are equivalent to a 15x eyepiece. You may notice my iPhone held in an antique Zeiss AeroTopo aerial reconnaissance viewer - the corrected lenses are superb!

WDC Norman, if you have not tried StereoPhotoMaker, you should. It is more specialized for 3D than Photoshop. I think your parallel and cross eyed pictures are backwards! No big deal. I have taken very good 3D with my iPhone.

Thank you, VT, I got the filenames switched and it's now corrected. I guess it was too late last night.

I like your microscope setup, very cool! As I don't use Apple products, I found an alternative app for Android called 3DSteroid. It works sufficiently but I think I still prefer my DSLR with optical zoom and adjustable aperture. But it's good to have the app to take some 3D photos while travelling.

Since I have the original Edison card, I have decided to make it available again. The Edison stereoview is now available as a high-quality photo reproduction:

http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewto ... =9&t=31265

WDC wrote:Thank you, VT, I got the filenames switched and it's now corrected. I guess it was too late last night.

I like your microscope setup, very cool! As I don't use Apple products, I found an alternative app for Android called 3DSteroid. It works sufficiently but I think I still prefer my DSLR with optical zoom and adjustable aperture. But it's good to have the app to take some 3D photos while travelling.

Norman, I have that same app on my iPhone. The author, Masuji Suto, is the creator of the StereoPhotoMaker program that I told you about. That program was written for Windows, but will also run in Linux (and Mac OS) using the Wine emulator.

VintageTechnologies wrote:Norman, I have that same app on my iPhone. The author, Masuji Suto, is the creator of the StereoPhotoMaker program that I told you about. That program was written for Windows, but will also run in Linux (and Mac OS) using the Wine emulator.

Now I see what you were getting at. That's indeed a fantastic program! The 64bit version was somewhat instable but I got the 32bit version running flawlessly with Wine 1.6.2 on my x64 Ubuntu. The interface is really great, looks much more like a tool rather than a toy. Thank you for pointing this out to me again!