Stereo-photographs, 3-D images

Here are some stereo-photographs I recently made manually with a hand-held point-and-shoot camera. (A Nikon One-Touch Zoom 90QD; what a fancy marketing name for a small camera!)

I got the idea from Craig Rairdin and his experiments with stereo-photography and 3-D pictures.

To view the photos in 3-D, try following Craig's directions to "focus [your eyes] beyond the plane of the photos. The images will begin to drift. When the two images come together in the middle, your brain will bring them into focus and create a 3-D image."

"You may have to tip your head to one side or the other in order to get the vertical alignment of the pictures right."

I'll try to add some other stereo-photos as time permits.

Enjoy!

Shellsburg house pictures taken January 1, 2001

I've also used my grandparents' stereo-opticon, or stereograph, viewer to view these pictures. A stereo-opticon viewer was the precursor to the famous View-Master viewer.

I put the house photos into the viewer, and viewing results are really great. The house looks 3-D, and the snow piles look solid.

However, the sides of the stereo-opticon viewer are too close for me. Either my head is too big and/or my glasses are too wide (I prefer to believe the latter!). My daughters had better success since they have smaller heads and one doesn't have glasses to interfer with viewing. Maybe people in the late 1800's and early 1900's had smaller heads. (Perhaps our heads have evolved since then, and gotten bigger to remember all our new space-age information; or maybe not!)

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