3D Ponderings about - Sony DSC-QX10, DSC-QX30, DSC-QX100 and ILCE-QX1

Barretlight wrote:

First of all good luck with your attempts.

Thank you. Didn't get to it today, and tomorrow is otherwise booked, but I WILL make more progress on this

Regarding freeviewing (parallel) it only works if the width of the two images is less than the distance between your eyes ~65mm so it might work better on a phone. For larger displays crossview works great.

I have been routinely freeviewing 75-85mm for years, on paper, on tablets, and on laptops. Certainly not close up, but at comfortable viewing distances. I have lots of my own images I enjoy, and have purchased CDs full, including the archive CD of "Stereo World." Fun stuff.

It simply has never occurred to me that I wasn't supposed to do that. :}

How do people shop for antique stereoviews?

Crossviewing, on the other hand, is something I never have been able to manage.

Unlike parallel, if you can't freeview it, you are out of luck. There are no readily available inexpensive viewers so there is no easy way to see the images in stereo if you can't crossview.

I am still often amazed that a relatively recent book on stereo photography was printed with crossviews, so sits on my shelf untouched. Wasted money. I have no idea if the text is worth reading because the presence of for-me-unviewable stereo images bothers me so much I can't stand to look at the book. That's my cranky-old-farp side. Also maybe kinda touchy because my inability to crossview may be brain-damage related.

I only suggested a cardboard like device because most people cannot do parallel viewing so it could be easier for them.

Fine for viewing, but to use playmemories to control cameras, you need to have access to on-screen controls, that is the only point I was trying to make. My objective here is to confirm another convenient solution for photographers  :}

Anyway even if you can only see the feed from one camera i think its gonna be good enough. Your own eyes can tell you how 3d the scene will be.

I would hope that once I get multicamera working (whether or not simultaneous exposure is possible), PlayMem will give a choice of positioning the images, which would allow parallel, cross, stacked, or whatever.

And if the hardware/firmware/api allows simultaneous exposure, I would hope that someone will be enthused enough to create a stereophoopoglyphers app that allows remote control (bluetooth, headphone jack, volume control, etc) of the phone, to allow google cardboard, and optional parallel/cross/stacked/anaglyphic/wobbly/etc viewing for them what druther. (And when set to cross-view, it would provide a way to live-parallel-view crossviews, right?)

Personally, I would take great joy in wandering around public places with anaglyphic clip-ons on my trifocals, while viewing my waist level tablet with two mismatched QXs clipped to it; even if my apparently mutant ability to comfortably view 75mm parallel stereoviews renders that unnecessary.

I might even get a larger tablet.