View Master is the 3d solution with the greatest commercial succes ever. started being a sophisticated piece of equipment used by adults to view everything from vacation spots to movie trailer photos, and slowly evolved into a toy for kids. Its system allows users to view different slides mounted in View Master-reels in real 3D. The technic is rather simpel and can be explained as following.
2 cameras are placed besides eachother taking the same photo in exact the same moment, giving two different angles of the same scene. Then the photos are printed on transparent film and mounted on a reel. this reel is then put inside a View Master viewer and because of the two different angles, the user can now with the right eye see the right photo and with the left eye the left. this gives the user a very realistic view of the occation in 3d.
nearly a week ago i found one of these pieces of wonder equipment and started to think about creating my own reels with motives from my own life, so i could view them equally in 3d.
On the web nearly only one sollution is found - buy the very expensive camera from the manufactorer of the view master, and fabricate reels ALSO using their expensive products.
So i decided that there must be an easier way of doing so. Then i came op with the idea of just printing the two photos in small scale but high resolution on transparent film, using a very good photo printer and transparent film paper from HP, and then buying, or homebrewing, some reels to mount my photos in.
The project is described in the image at left, and is at this point on hold until i gather the needed material.
the picture describes what i think must be the easiest way to produce youre own reels. Starting with two one-use cameras racked up besides eachother, trickered at the exact same time. Then taking the produced photos and scnning them into the computer in high resolution, then by using some photo-program scale them down to the measurements of the original champers of the reels, keeping an eye on the resolution (DPI) if it rises to over 201 the small scale picture is acceptable for mounting in the reel. Then print the two pictues, or more if you have any, out in small sizes on the transparent paper. Cut them out with a scissor and mount them on your homebrew reel or on your bought reel. and watch your views in 3d - sounds more terrifing than it really is.
i'll put up some info when i get the project done.
more:
cheap reels for your personal photos
info on the view master and how it works.
View Master - ideas on making your own reels
- Johannesgj - Saturday, July 28, 2007
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Any success? I've been thinking about making my own too, but need a very inexpensive way to do it.
Am about to try this also. There's a template on the wikipedia view master page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_Master) that helps with layout.
I suspect though that inkjet printing won't be high enough quality/resolution. I just created some photoshops at 250dpi and there isn't much detail to the frames.
Can a photo lab create slides from digital pictures? Might be worth looking at next?
michael
Yesterday I printed onto transparency at 600dpi (using a very high quality photocopier/printer).
Printed onto paper, the reels looked good, but onto transparency, it's like the ink didn't really stick. The 3D effect works, but the images aren't nearly clear enough to identify anyone in them.
hello michael!
i have no other way to write to you than this one.
please make it possible for me to have a way to contact you, maybe send a mail to my @ddress or something. because i'm really interested in the progress you have done. can you maybe send some scans of the transparents you'd made. at the nearest photolab of mine they have promissed to make great resolution (dpi) possibly higher than 600 for nearly no fee.
but at this moment i haven't even produced stereo images to print og even view so ...
my motive for doing all this hassle dassle is that i want to view my future Costa-Rica vacation in 3d when comming home again.
please contact me with progress information.
Hi johannes
I sent you an email with the slides i've created. See how you go and let me know..
cheers
michael
Create the layout using the images in Illustrator/photoshop, then have a digital camera service render them to hi-res film..see https://www.gammatech.com/html/recordingmed.shtml
Hello ... any new information? Have you figured it out?
I was able to create viewmaster discs by creating the layout in Illustrator and dropping the images in, then recording the file to a single 4x5 sheet of transparency film using a digital film recorder. I then cut out the disc using a fiskars circle cutter and notched it using an exacto knife, then dropped it into a viewmaster and it worked great. Didn't need any reinforcing in the center, as long as you cut the notches right, it stays centered and works great.
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