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Any advice and help rigging twin cameras for 3d stereo?

Started Mar 25, 2016 | Questions thread
OP bkconnect New Member • Posts: 4
Re: Any advice and help rigging twin cameras for 3d stereo?

steve ohlhaber wrote:

Hi,

I have been doing digital 3d for many years and before that, spent years shooting film 3d. So, the best rig I have for stills is a Stereo Data Maker rig. That is basically software you can download that lets you replace the cameras internal firmware to do 3d. Its not a permanent change, it forces the camera to boot off the SD card with different software. The camera basically gets an added set of commands that allow you to get sync between two cameras. Its perfect really.

This works with canon cameras, and there are many that it is compatible with. It takes a little fiddling, but you basically get your hands on 2 compatible canon cameras, download the stereo data maker software, it was free last time I checked, get a usb trigger, then you can shoot perfectly synced 3d stills. You cant easily do synced 3d video, that is much more fiddley to get sorted out.

For the SDM rig I have, the canon s95 works really well. The cameras as pretty small, good quality, and work very well in 3d. The link below is for that software. Not sure if its going commercial or what.

http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/sdm/index.htm

Hi Steve,

Yes, this is the route I would like to go.  I found that the Canon s95 is not manufactured anymore, but some turn up on Amazon and probably Ebay or other internet sources.  Would you be interested in rigging the cameras for me for compensation?

Thanks,

Sherri

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