Stereo Photo Galleries taken with Iloca Cameras
While it's fun to go out and take photos, it is equally important to find a practical way of displaying your images for viewing pleasure. This is no problem for normal 2D photography - photo frames, photo albums, computers, TV screens and phones offer plenty of scope. However, viewing stereo (or 3D) images is a different challenge altogether, and is something that has perplexed the 3D world for around a century and a half.
Briefly, a stereo photo consists of two individual images usually taken through a pair of lenses separated by about the distance between your eyes (approx 60 to 75mm, although this may vary considerably depending on the type of camera and subject). The trick for viewing in 3D is to allow the right eye to view the right image only, and the left eye to view only the left image. Sounds simple, but in practice it poses plenty of challenges.
The obvious way to view stereo photos is via a stereoscope or stereo viewer. That's fine if you have the original stereo slides and a suitable viewer. Clearly, that approach won't work on a website, but there are some other fairly practical, but less effective, methods available which can suffice with a bit of practice. Here are four of the most common:
Each of the above galleries offers some hints and techniques for the respective method to help with viewing the photos.
Briefly, a stereo photo consists of two individual images usually taken through a pair of lenses separated by about the distance between your eyes (approx 60 to 75mm, although this may vary considerably depending on the type of camera and subject). The trick for viewing in 3D is to allow the right eye to view the right image only, and the left eye to view only the left image. Sounds simple, but in practice it poses plenty of challenges.
The obvious way to view stereo photos is via a stereoscope or stereo viewer. That's fine if you have the original stereo slides and a suitable viewer. Clearly, that approach won't work on a website, but there are some other fairly practical, but less effective, methods available which can suffice with a bit of practice. Here are four of the most common:
- Anaglyph images (note that you will need a pair of red-cyan glasses)
- Crosseyed viewing method
- Parallel viewing method
- Single (or 2D) image taken from one of the stereo pairs. (This of course removes the 3D aspect completely, but at least you can see a normal 2D view of the image as if it was taken with a regular single lens camera).
Each of the above galleries offers some hints and techniques for the respective method to help with viewing the photos.