Attachment Troubles?

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Originally posted by kbarger
Not bad... what software did you use to create it?

I'm dabbling in stereo photography (with a Stereo Realist camera I bought off ebay), tho I can't post much till I have some time to monkey with the slide scanner at work.

Images 3D, a Freeware program I found at http://home.cogeco.ca/~grichter1/ .

I'm using a Sony Mavica (first generation, thus the not so great resolution and 640 x 480 limitation) on a tripod. I shoot two pics, one from a left perspective, one from a right perspective (leaving the front toe of the tripod stationary as I rotate the rest of the tripod some experimental distance for the second shot). The software then lets you layer the two together and adds the red/blue tinting to make the traditional anaglyph. It also does stereo pairs (like for use with a stereoptican viewer) and interlaced pairs (for use with LCD 3D glasses).

It requires some tinkering in order to get the two pics lined up right, and another program I used as a demo had some features which made this much easier, but it wouldn't allow you to save, wrote "demo" all over your preview, and cost $100.00. For the cost savings, this program seems to do pretty much all the other one did, it is just a little more tricky to do the lineup of the pair.

It would be nice to have some sort of device that produces simultaneous stereo pairs to work with, though. How much did you give for the camera you got, and why slides for scanning? Why not prints?