After a short summer break we are back! Join our next meeting on July 17 when we will have a talk by Barry Rothstein how to create Phantograms and our community slideshow with your images for the WATER challenge. Join us on Sunday, July 7 at 2:00 pm EDT / 7:00 pm GMT / 8:00 pm CEST!
My stereophotography and stereoview collection are two sides of the same coin for me and have a common origin story. Travel back with me to May 2014 — London. A chance encounter on a canal boat. A question asked. An answer given. My life… transformed.
Though its popularity increased and decreased throughout the decades, the concept of stereoscopy was continuously applied to a variety of practices including medicine — even today.
Back in 1838 the concept of binocular vision had not yet been explored or written about anywhere. It was a scientist in his mid 30s who not only described the phenomenon later called stereopsis but also constructed a device to view two flat images in 3D which he called a stereoscope. This is especially remarkable as photography was not invented until one year later. Charles Wheatstone’s observations were based only on drawings. Most of these drawings are based on horizontal mirroring which is why we call them mirror stereos today. Read Wheatstone’s original source here.
Are you up for a challenge? We have one for you! The theme of our next community slideshow in May will be ‘LIGHT’ and you’re invited to send us your stereo photos. It can be an image including sun rays, sunsets, light art or just a cool light bulb.Besides the slideshow there will be a presentation about stereo conversions of paintings. Join us on May 8!
Join our April meeting! Again, we will have two inspiring talks for you. You can discover world maps with a third dimension and the 3D artist within you! We also continue our new “In-Depth-Socializing” series to introduce some of our members. See you there! Join us on Sunday, April 10th 2022, at 2pm EDT / 8pm CEST
In our next meeting we are going to have presentations about the Looking Glass Portrait, a new display which allows us to easily create digital lenticular images as well as some insights on the magic of Wiggle GIFs. And we have something new: In-Depth Socializing. Join us to discover new 3D trends and our community on Sunday, March 6 2022 at 2:00 pm EST / 7:00 pm GMT / 8:00 pm CET
In 2020 the MINUTA STEREO Pinhole Camera campaign got successfully funded on Kickstarter within one month. The developer tells what happened since.
Alfred Silvester’s 1857 series of stereoviews entitled ‘Declaration of Love’ begins with a scene depicting a young woman seated at the piano. Jonathan Ross interprets the series and reveals a Valentine’s tale — not only for Victorians.
Come join our second meeting in 2022! We will cover a broad variety of topics: vintage stereoview box sets, modern stereo photos from Paraguay and first-hand information about the world’s biggest stereo event. Isn’t it just awesome how multi-facetted stereoscopy is?
Join us Sunday, February 6th at 2:00 pm EDT / 7:00 pm GMT / 8:00 pm CET
Happy New Year to all of you! For our first meeting in 2022 we want to take a close look to our community once again. We will feature Felix Schlicht from Germany in a Photographer spotlight and then have a community slide show. Therefore we ask you to send us up to 6 of your stereo photos. Read the post for more details. Join us on Sunday, January 9th at 2:00 pm EDT / 18:00 GMT / 8:00 pm CEST
StereoPhoto Maker, a software developed by the Japanese stereo photographer Masuji Suto, made things a lot easier for digital stereo photography. Believe it or not, he is not a professional software developer! Like most of us, Masuji is just passionate about stereoscopy and is happy to help the community with his software developing skills. Curious about him? We met him for an interview.
