OT: Other collecting activities? - Digital Stereo camera

From: Innfogra_at_aol.com <(Innfogra_at_aol.com)>
Date: Sat Apr 17 23:50:33 2004

In a message dated 4/17/04 2:59:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
healyzh_at_aracnet.com writes:
Some interesting things for the traditional Stereo Card format could
probably be done with a properly hacked pair of digital cameras. I'm
not sure what might have been done along these lines.
Photography in one of my avocations too. Last "buy nothing day" I bought a
Pentax Optio 430RS digital camera for an upcoming trip to Mexico.

To my surprise it has a stereo mode and came with an interesting stereo
viewer. It looks like it will be fun to play with. First you shoot one pic, move
the camera slightly and shoot the second pic. They are both recorded on one
frame. You then print the pic on a normal color printer which prints the two
images on one sheet of paper.

Comes with a chart on how much to move the camera for a given focusing
distance to get an optimum stereo effect.

The viewer is a pop together piece of translucent plastic which you then set
on the print and look through the lenses to see the stereo picture. Folds flat.

I was surprised to see stereo in the camera and a viewer in the box. Someone
high up in Pentax has a stereo bug.

I took a couple of stereo pics. Enough to see there is a learning curve.
Didn't use stereo on the trip. Turned out to be a good first digital camera for
the trip, though.
Received on Sat Apr 17 2004 - 23:50:33 BST