Hi, thanks for looking! These pages covering the CSC "3D Scope" event are intended to record it's happening, they aren't intended to be a gallery of stereo photography at it's best (in fact about half aren't even stereo). It's also intended to give folk who couldn't attend a flavor of what went on. I just "buzzed around" like a pesky bee and took quick snapshots, or as quick a snapshot I was able to take (see below).

Now, A few background random comments about how the 3D Scope photos were made and processed....

Generally, the images were taken using a single digital camera on a tripod and focusing rack that adjusts side-to-side. Images were then downloaded to a Windows PC (350-Mhz K6-2) and manipulated using Photoshop 5.

The camera used was a Fuji DS-7. It was cheap. It has 640x480 resolution that it generates in a slightly fuzzy fashion, and it has limited dynamic range. A new camera is on order (and has been for two months), but it's what I have now. It also can't use a flash so a lot of the images (taken under low light conditions) had to be "fixed" much as I could using Photoshop.

The 640x480 images were then manipulated, as mentioned above, using Photoshop to align and crop pairs of images into a single "set". There maybe better and/or faster ways to do this, TBD. I assumed that folk's CRT screens would show the parallel ("straight-on") view pairs about the same size as on my screen, this may not have been a good asumption, but the crossed-pairs can make up for it. In addition, the cross-eye stereo pairs are of higher resolution the "regular" pairs (not possible with the "regular" pair with left-eye image on left and right-eye image on the right).

3D images of people were made possible by the folk in the photos graciously standing dead-still for about ten seconds so that I could take the two photos (slightly apart). The DS-7 takes quite a bit of time to process an image, so time between photos can take a while. I can't thank them enough for their help. This also is why most photos with people in them are 2D images.

 - Mike Kersenbrock 6/1999