Tag: Stereoscopic

I thought to commemorate Sir Charles Wheatstone on the 150th anniversary of his death I’d share a stereoscopic calotype negative I recently made, with a heck of a lot of help, at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. Charles Wheatstone commissioned the first photographs for his invention the stereoscope in 1840. In December that year, he wrote to […]

I thought to honour the father of virtual reality, Sir Charles Wheatstone, on the 150th anniversary of his death, I’d share a post about how to view almost any stereoscopic image in a Meta Quest VR headset, using an app I’ve been enjoying for the past year, and am really impressed with, ImmerGallery. I thought […]

By VICTOR LEVY I embarked on a journey for which nothing had prepared me. For sixty years, I had lived with only a partial perception of the world. Being amblyopic, I don’t perceive depth in 3D. Our understanding of amblyopia is largely shaped by the work of two researchers in the 1970s, David Hubel and […]

Whilst I’ve spent a lot of time in the darkroom, I’ve always felt that my prints from black and white negatives, despite being stereoscopic, looked a bit ‘flat’; in the famous words of Chappell Roan, but more from a darkroom perspective, ‘I get the job done’, but the prints were dull, lacking something, and I […]

I’m grateful once again to 35mmc for giving stereoscopic 3-D photography a platform to celebrate Stereoscopy Day. In today’s 35mmc post, ‘Stereoscopic Photography with a Rolleiflex’, you can find out how to take 3-D photos with a Rolleiflex and the official Rollei accessory for making sequential stereoscopic photographs, the ‘Stereo Slide’. The post includes some […]

Long before I started working on the book “The Poor Man’s Picture Gallery” [1] I had been interested in the connections between painting, photography and stereoscopy and never missed an opportunity to trace the source of a staged stereoscopic scene to some artwork which may have been famous back in the Victorian era but had […]

Any collectors of British Victorian stereoviews will be delighted to learn that thanks to new research, it’s now possible to date some stereoscopic photographs to 1857. 1857 was the year of the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester, with Philip Henry Delamotte, professor of drawing at King’s College, London, and photographic artist, appointed manager of the […]