🫣 How to Look at Stereoscopic Train Photos Without Having a Special Viewer

[Turbo4whl (Wayne Powell)]

Film from a camera shop. They will send it to a lab in New York. Send instructions not to cut the film, transparency slide film. I will cut and mount in the slides. I have the stereo mounts.

[Hines (Bill)]

That’s so cool. Resurrecting old tech. When you get this up and running Wayne, would you add your method of filming to the Wiki at the top of the page?

[Hines (Bill)]

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[Turbo4whl (Wayne Powell)]

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RE: 🫣 How to Look at Stereoscopic Train Photos Without Having a Special Viewer

RE: 🫣 How to Look at Stereoscopic Train Photos Without Having a Special Viewer

Turbo4whlWayne Powell

May 31

This Wiki will teach you how to look at stereoscopic images or die trying. The intention of this wiki is to also provide a repository of stereoscopic images that may be of interest to LargeScale Centalians. This Wiki is Best Viewed Where the Center of the Photos can be Adjusted to the Distance Between your Pupils. on a phone on a tablet [IMG_2979] Occasionally a stereoscopic image will pop up that deserves a proper look. Unfortunately these photos are not in that GAF VIEWMASTER format you …

Hi Bill, I tried to add a comment to your 3D post. Waiting hours for it to clear. My question, can you focus your eyes the way you explained? I can not. Many years ago I had a view master.

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HinesBill

May 31

Hi Wayne,
Hopefully I can help.
I suspect it’s because it’s a WIKI.
I found the easiest way was with a tablet like an iPad or phone.

See if you can forcefully make your eyes blurry. This helps, but is not essential.

1. Get a rough idea of the distance between your pupils
2. Set the distance between the center of each picture to roughly the same distance (so if you put your nose to the screen each eye is looking at the middle of each picture)
3. If you know how to make your eyes blurry this part is a bit easier, because it’s best if you don’t initially focus.
4. Be sitting down looking at a tv across the room.
5. Bring the phone or iPad up to your face and try to make (convince) your eyes to look at the tv through the phone/ipad screen. This actually keeps your eyes looking straight out.

Asside: When you look at things up close your eyes naturally want to cross. You can prove this to yourself by focusing on your finger held between your face and the TV because the tv in the background will double as you focus on the finger

6. Slowly pull the iPhone/ tablet away from your eyes until things start coming into focus, and if you’re doing it correctly you’ll have 3 images and the center one will be in 3d.

”Eun Dürr Gartenbahn”
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HinesBill

May 31

- YouTube

Wayne this video may help.

”Eun Dürr Gartenbahn”
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HinesBill

Jun 3

Hey Wayne, how did it go?

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Turbo4whlWayne Powell

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An update, I finished up my first roll of film in the 3D camera. Dropped it off at the local camera shop. They will send it to Kodak in New York. Three week turn around. They will not cut the transparent film, I hope. Then I will mount them in the 3D slides.

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