Brian May & The Magic of 3D
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
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Brian May waxes poetic about his love of stereophotography (3D).
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In 2010, I had the opportunity to interview Brian May - but not about music! And not about astrophysics (at the age of 60, he famously completed his PhD, which he had been working on before he got busy as guitarist for Queen).
Since childhood, Brian May has been fascinated by stereoscopy or 3D photography - particularly the work of some of the great Victorian stereophotographers. His passion was so great that he ultimately resurrected the original London Stereoscopic Company, and became a modern publisher of books of stereoscopy.
In 2010, with the release of "A Village Lost and Found," the first book from LSC, he and his co-author Elena Vidal gave a presentation at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Before his talk, I had a few minutes to speak with him about the book and his passion for stereoscopy.
Visit the London Stereoscopic Company:
londonstereo.com/
This is great! 😀
The real magic here is discovering stereoscopic imagery through the passion of Brian May.
His passion is contagious!
I loved Viewmaster 3D reels as a kid. Recently I got into 3D after I went to Stonehenge and they were selling 3D postcards. I thought, "Yes! This is the way to truly appreciate Stonehenge, regular photos just don't do it justice." After I got home, I put two small identical cameras side-by-side on a stick and snapped photos simultaneously. I can't freeze action, but it's good enough. I have software to make the images stereo or I do it by hand (which takes a bit of work). I email the photos to a smartphone and use an old stereoscope to view the images. Another thing that works great in 3D is snow. Flat 2D photos never really show snow piles properly. For convenience I use Brian May's Own viewer to look at printed photos.
I still have a book of stereoscopic images that fascinated me in my youth. You could 'free view' the photos in the same way you viewed Magic Eye pictures. Brian May is right that the 3D view of these (often very old) photos was so much more exciting and detailed than a simple flat 2D photo. Annoyingly, after getting laser surgery to correct my shortsightedness, it became much much harder to easily free-view the images!