Three-Dimensional Photography - Principles of Stereoscopy

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THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY P ri nci p les of Stereoscopy by HERBERT C. McKAY F. R.P. S. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK DEPARTMENT ...

Copyright 1953 by the AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING COMPANY Printed in the United States of America AMERICAN BOOK STRATFORD P ...

TO my principal assistant who is also my wife, FRANCES A. McKAY ...

CHAPTER TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Elementary Stereography ............. Stere ...

INTRODUCTION URING THE TWO YEARS since the first edition of this book D appeared, there has been a profound change in the status ...

viii INTRODUCTION overboard-and stereo does not seem to have been harmed by the fact. Stereo used to be reserved for very carefu ...

INTRODUCTION ix could not understand that in ortho-stereo the final magnification is unity, that is, it does not exist visually. ...

x INTRODUCTION ject. In short, it does not reproduce more than a fraction of the essential visual detail of any object. When the ...

INTRODUCTION xi sauctions for making even more elaborate shifting bases which may be made at home. Black-and-white stereo films ...

xii INTRODUCTION an excellent planar picture simply ruins the characteristic value of the stereogram. A new form of composition ...

Three-Dimensional P hotogruphy ...

CHAPTER 1 ELEMENTARY STEREOGRAPHY HAT Is STEREOCRAPHY? Stereography is a photographic W technique which enables you to realize y ...

2 THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY Why should stereo be chosen rather than conventional photog- raphy? Much of this volume is devot ...

ELEMENTARY STEREOGRAPHY 3 two eyes which are separated hy a distance of 65mm, more or less. It is obvious that, inasmuch as the ...

4 THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY the present we shall ignore them and proceed to make the simple stereogram. THE SIMPLE CAMERA.-A ...

ELEMENTARY STEREOGRAPHY 5 be used. The simplest consists of a board with a raised border or frame around three sides. (Fig. 1-2) ...

6 THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY but care is taken to make sure the camera rests solidly against one of the side rails and agains ...