The right side of a stereo pair. You can just assume I wanted an excuse to put a shirtless guy in my blog |
Unfortunately, the film industry again proved the adage, “make it good, or make it 3D,” despite that there were some films that were both. And with a lack of good new content coming, the existing material just couldn’t support things. Yes, House of Wax is a wonderful film (I’m referring to the 1953 Vincent Price movie, not the unrelated 2005 film of the same name), but how often can you watch it.[4]
But my interests in 3D don’t end at movies. Nor do they even begin there. My introduction to stereo images was a box of stereo cards that a friend’s mother had. These were amazing. Years later, I have quite a few of my own. Looking at an antique stereo view, like the one below (from a set of the Holy Land, taken in the late nineteenth century) is like taking a peep back into time, and it have a level of reality that a regular photograph just doesn’t have. Yeah, sometimes the damage makes it so that you’re looking through a damaged peephole, but they still fascinate me.
Here's the entire image. |
I have taken thousands of pictures with my Fuji camera. Sometimes the image looks a little waxy (low light and small, cheap lenses), but generally, I’m happy with it, and ready to snap more pics.
Bridge over the river Aare, Bern, Switzerland. |
Same image, anaglyph. Nah, I don't like anaglyph either. |
This is a topic I've neglected in this blog. All those years collecting and taking stereo images, and I haven't had a moment to talk about it yet. Until now. It will come up again. Promise.
- That is, again. ↩
- Say what you like, it was excellent use of 3D, right to Harold saying to his assistant, “who are you talking to?” ↩
- I hate 3D conversion. If you’re not going to film it in 3D, don’t show it in 3D. ↩
- I’ve seen it twice flat, finally in 3D, and I’m sure I’ll watch it again, though I do have that backlog of Doctor Who to get through. ↩
- Because let’s be honest: that’s the important part. That’s why Hugo works so much better in 3D. ↩
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