How To Take 3D Photos With An Ordinary Digital Camera. Great Fun!!!
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I like sterescopy since I was a boy. When you look at a 2-dimensional photo, you see the scene. When you look at a 3-dimensional photo, you may perhaps feel like you're in the scene. Anyway, watching stereophotos is just fun!
How does stereoscopy work?
Only people who are able to see three-dimensional, can see stereo-photos properly. Each of our eyes sees the world from another position. So each of your eyes sees a different image. The human brain calculates now the depth-information of a scene, based on these differences.
So a stereo-photo also consists of two photos, which were taken at the same time and in a distance, which is about the same as the distance between our two eyes.
To see the three-dimensional effect it is necessary, to only show the left eye the left photo and the right eye the right photo. There are serveral ways to do this. You can read about some of them below.
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How to take stereophotos?
There are a lot of stereocameras available to buy - from cheap plastic cameras to high-end cameras. Also there are some adaptors for ordinary cameras available. They have two lenses an some mirrors built in which deflect the two images from the lenses an put them together on one photo. By the way: another alternative is to buy an used camera.
But now we will see, how you can take your own stereo-photos with an ordinary digital camera. There is one limitation on this method. You can only take photos of a still life. Now motion please! So let's start. Creating a stereophoto with an ordinary photocamera is really quite simple.
- Find the right still life. There should be some stuff in the foreground and some in the background. The effect will be more intensive.
- Stand upright. The distance from your left to your right foot should be the same as from your left to your right shoulder.
- Shift your weight a bit on your left leg. You will automatically move a bit to the left. Take your photo now.
- Now shift your weight a bit on your right leg. You will automatically move a bit to the right. Just move the camera parallel. Take your second photo now. Please be aware, that the distance of your cameras lens between the first an the second photo should be the same as the distance between your eyes. A little practice may be nesessary here.
- That's it! You have taken your first pair of stereo photos.
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