Stereo Island

[F.M.]

I'm handling the cameras, The cameras are a pair of Sony DSC-W150, I say cheap because I bought them at Costco, and they came in a two in one pack(180$). I chose this in case the experiment didn't work, I wouldn't be out too much money. I bought a piece of aluminum bar, drilled holes were the tripod holes to the cameras would line up, when the cameras are side by side(camera body size allow the lenses separation to approximate eye separation)When working the cameras I have to make sure All setting are equal for both.I have to click the record buttons at the same so both video files are synchronized. In the computer I export video files to image sequences(Left and Right), then use Anaglyph Workshop to get the 3D files, this file don't have audio, so the original files from the camera have to be converted from MPG to Mov files in order to extract the audio and paste it to the 3D files. BTW the video is much better without the Youtube compression.

[GCharb]

I see, nice indeed and cheap as you said.

The workflow is simple enough.

There are very expensive digital 3d camera that works about the same way

I was thinking about making a cheaper set for HDTV, there are special rigs for such setup too, like at http://www.di3d.com

I was planning on getting two affordable JVC full HDTV 3CCD camcorders and synch them with a home made time code, should be interesting.

Thanks for sharing!

G

[F.M.]

This is what the rig looks like!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZrNGJ7ftog