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

Started Mar 25, 2016 | Questions thread
threed123
threed123 Senior Member • Posts: 1,490
Re: Any advice and help rigging twin cameras for 3d stereo?

bkconnect wrote:

I have taken most of my pictures using the Realist format film cameras and I haven't really liked what I have done so far with my Fujifilm W3. The whole 16:9 is so wide. Maybe I'll have the same problem with the twin S95 cameras.

I recently scanned about 1000 old realist slides into my computer and showed them to friends on my 16:9 3D projector. The slide images are square when you view them unmounted and become slightly taller than wide when mounted. I got a few oohs and ahhs, but then I showed them several of the same slides cropped to 16:9 to fill up the screen and got a wow, wow, wow.  I found the same result with 4:3 W3 pics. When cropped to 16:9, they seemed more pleasing and complete, plus pull you closer to the subjects of interest.  Objects beyond 25 feet are usually useless to capture anyway in a 3D shot.  I shoot at 16:9, though slightly less resolution, it forces me to compose the image so I don't cut off the bottom or top of objects as often happens when I crop 4:3 to 16:9.

One thing to consider about resolution is that you will probably only show your 3D images on a 3D computer monitor or 3D TV and even with 4k, the reduced resolution of a 16:9 is still within respectable limits of what a 3D monitor or TV can show.

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