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Polaroid Stereographic Worlds

Polaroid Stereographic Worlds

I dis­cov­ered that I could cre­ate stere­o­graph­ic worlds using POLAROID SX-70 cam­eras in the 1984. Some were stan­dard 3D images (like the STREET LIFE Series), but by stag­ing unusu­al objects and mate­ri­als found in the aging indus­tri­al area of low­er Man­hat­tan, var­i­ous tableaus were cre­at­ed and slow­ly evolved in my stu­dio. With the Polaroid SX-70 cam­eras, I record­ed the var­i­ous devel­op­ments steroeop­ti­cal­ly, cre­at­ing over 50 tableau’s in a 3 year period.

VSC Meeting, June 2023

VSC Meeting, June 2023

We are very sor­ry that this mon­th’s announce­ment is ter­ri­bly late! We still hope that many of you are able to join us TOMORROW.

First, we have George Themelis in our Pho­tog­ra­ph­er Spot­light, who will take us on a jour­ney through Greece. After that, we will trav­el around the globe to look at some trea­sures of our com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers dur­ing a Show & Tell. We will fin­ish with an In-Depth Socializing.

We hope to see you tomor­row, Sun­day, June 4th at 2:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm CEST!

VSC Meeting, May 2023

VSC Meeting, May 2023

Save the date! We invite you all to our next VSC meet­ing, where we’ll be cov­er­ing two great topics!
First, we have a spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion by Val about ‘Italy Unveiled: A Stereo­scop­ic Trip Through His­to­ry and Art.’
Then, we’ll be show­ing a com­mu­ni­ty slideshow fea­tur­ing all the stere­os that YOU sub­mit­ted to our May challenge.
Join us on Sun­day, May 7th, 2pm EDT / 8pm CEST

VSC Meeting, April 2023

VSC Meeting, April 2023

Join the Vir­tu­al Stereo­scop­ic Com­mu­ni­ty (VSC) for an excit­ing online meet­ing this Sun­day! Carl­ton will share the fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ry of Polaroid 3D Art­work and the Wheat­stone Plex­i­glass view­ers, while Peter will intro­duce us to his ani­mat­ed com­e­dy series, “Pint Size Chat”. And don’t miss the chance to get to know your fel­low com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers dur­ing our In-Depth Social­iz­ing sec­tion. Whether you’re a sea­soned pro or just get­ting start­ed in stereo­scop­ic pho­tog­ra­phy, this event promis­es to be fun and infor­ma­tive. See you there!

The Ives Kromskop

The Ives Kromskop

One of the most remark­able stere­o­scopes ever pro­duced com­mer­cial­ly was the Ives Krom­skop (Patent #531,040, Dec 18, 1894). In it, three stereo­scop­ic glass pos­i­tives made from neg­a­tives exposed through red, green, and blue fil­ters are opti­cal­ly super­im­posed to give a full col­or image of remark­able qual­i­ty. It was more than ten years pri­or to the intro­duc­tion of rel­a­tive­ly crude full col­or plates such as the Autochrome.

Phantograms from Macrophant 3D

Phantograms from Macrophant 3D

These images are from my most recent book “Macro­phant 3D”, pub­lished at the end of 2020 in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Jim McManus. It is a col­lec­tion of 60 macro phan­tograms.  In the book they’re shown in anaglyph, par­al­lel view and cross-eyed view.

VSC Meeting, March 2023

VSC Meeting, March 2023

We’re hap­py to have David Stark­man pre­sent­ing one item of his huge col­lec­tion: An Ives Kromoskop!
Also, David Kuntz and Vanes­sa Grein will talk about their col­lab­o­ra­tion, describe some of their work­ing meth­ods, and of course, share many of their images.
Join us on Sun­day, March 12th at 3:00 pm EDT / 8:00 pm CET!

Landscapes of Scotland and Wales

Landscapes of Scotland and Wales

I have been try­ing to cap­ture the beau­ty of Scot­land (my home coun­try) and Wales (where I live now) in 3D.  These land­scapes proved a great way to learn how to make the most of the depth from sin­gle-lens cha-chas and with the lim­it­ed base­line of the Fuji Finepix 3D W3. Of course, much cred­it must also go to my dog Punky, who pro­vid­ed a great focal point for many of my W3 landscapes.

VSC Meeting, February 2023

VSC Meeting, February 2023

In our Com­mu­ni­ty Slideshow we will show all images that our mem­bers sub­mit­ted for the „Home­town“ Challenge.
Besides that we are look­ing for­ward to a photographer’s high­light: Dave Wynn will be pre­sent­ing his stere­os from Scot­land and Wales. Using his Fuji Finepix W3 and cha chas tak­en with his sin­gle lens iPhone, Dave has been exper­i­ment­ing with get­ting the most out of 3D landscapes.
You will also have the chance get to know one of our mem­bers bet­ter as we con­tin­ue the In-Depth-Social­iz­ing series.
Join us on Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 5th 2023 at 2:00 pm EST / 8:00 pm CET

VSC Meeting, January 2023

VSC Meeting, January 2023

Hap­py New Year! For the first meet­ing of 2023 we will have one pre­sen­ta­tion and plen­ty of time for our community.
Katya will show us some extra­or­di­nary slides pro­duced in the Sovi­et Bloc dur­ing the 1970s. We will also have a Show & Tell sec­tion in which every­one is invit­ed to share a trea­sured 3D item or pho­to they’re excit­ed about.
So don’t for­get to bring some­thing with you — noth­ing is too ordi­nary to share it with us!
For the last part of our meet­ing we will take some time to intro­duce some­one from our community.
We’re look­ing for­ward to see­ing you on Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 8th 2023, 2pm EST / 8pm CET!

VSC Meeting, December 2022

VSC Meeting, December 2022

Join our Christ­mas meet­ing on Decem­ber 11! We will cel­e­brate mod­ern stere­oscopy togeth­er in sev­er­al ways. First, we will have Klara Wang pre­sent­ing about 2D to 3D con­ver­sions. She will show us some exam­ples of this pop­u­lar trend and demon­strate her stan­dard work­flow. Then we will look once again at your amaz­ing stereo pho­tos that you have sub­mit­ted for our fourth stereo chal­lenge. Final­ly, it’s raf­fle time… more details below! We’re look­ing for­ward to see­ing you on Sun­day, Decem­ber 11th at 2:00 pm EST / 8:00 pm CET. Don’t for­get some gin­ger­bread and your San­ta hat!

Smartphone Syncing — The Best of Two Worlds

Smartphone Syncing — The Best of Two Worlds

Crowd­ed places, ani­mals, wind or water — move­ment in gen­er­al is a No-Go if you’re tak­ing stereo pho­tos with your smart­phone. These are only some rea­sons why I start­ed work­ing on a solu­tion for sync­ing two smart­phones. After almost a year, I have a ful­ly func­tion­al set­up with two iPhones.