Lachs in Hummersosse

Der Herbst fängt gut an: ich sitze bei Madrid, geniesse al fresco die Sonne und den Marques (mgsjsn). Der Lachs ist perfekt.

Dann besuche ich die Volksrepublik China, kuck mir alte Bücher an und kaufe, weil das Tanzmariechen so polnisch aussieht Pravda Wodka zum Schützenfest.
Düsseldorf international.

In der Iloca ist... ach, das sehen Sie unten. Oben.

E In the fifties Iloca is nineties Tasma, the developer is interbellum, probably Darko.

I apologize for the stupid lay out, BLOGGER can't get it right lately. Very annoying.

3D stereo - howitsdun

This year's "Indian Summer Lecture" is about some fun: 3D photography.
Very easy to do, here are the steps:

1 Make two pictures, appr. 63mm horizontally apart, like your eyes are. You can use any camera, make a pinhole-box, or use a special one like the Iloca above.

2 Crop and align them with Picasa (or your own photoshop-thinghy). You have to think a bit: the left picture has to be at the left - my pinhole-print is wrong, you will never see 3D there!

3 Size: I print on 10x15 cm. If you only want them on your srcreen, the distance has to be 63 mm again.

4 A dark background is better for easy viewing.

5 How to look at them: it's a technique, or a trick. First: relax. Eyes at infinite, then just concentrate on the middle. Or buy a viewer like my Underwood, patented in 1901.

Try it! Download one of my pics above, find the right size for your screen and practise, get those eye-muscles moving. It's fun.

7 Sep Update: just a small hand-held quicky. I moved the camera not only horizontally, but also in a circle (more or less...) and discovered the 3D effect does nòt get better, but rather "well-done" (and I prefer mine "rare"):

And if you can get antique stereoscopic cards - those are real time machines! Great to be in that street, a century ore more ago:

Oh - I always forget the anaglyph method, because I don't have, nor like, the glasses. But that's also rather easy to do:

And of course:

Even in -26 Irkutsk with trowaways 3D is possible!

And, not photography, but nevertheless:

Sehr abenteuerlich...

...bin ich absolut nicht.
Aber... Gestern kriegte ich den Zeitplan f'ür meine bevorstehende Sibirien-Reise. Machte mich risikofreudig, heute also Curry Madras, bei Balthasar. Und nachher Pflaumenkuchen - Sie wissen was beide bewirken können!
Das Photo: Bild nicht vergrössern, Augen auf unendlich entspannen, und dann bewust sehen: 3-D (stereo). Gemacht mit der fünfziger Iloca.

(PS Keine MAIZNICA Haferflocken-Kekse gekauft?
Mais naturellement! Alles was noch da war...)

Then and now 24

There is a 145 years gap between the two pictures and there were some changes, especially after WWII. The whole embankment has changed, and not for the better, I think. Only three groups of original houses are left.
But then again: I do drive a car, enjoy central heating, use the computer...
And take pictures with the Elmar/Frankenstein on RolleiRetro100.

Fun...

...with the 3D-Iloca from 1951. Zimtsterne, Lebkuchen, Glühwein, Reibekuchen, Dinkel-Butterstollen (ein Stück vom Erzgebirge!) and twenty nice stereographies. In colour.

Rock 'n Roll in Mill

Well, at 28 degrees in the shadow it was more slow-rock. But the oldtimers were gorgious: Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Dodge, and the réal stuff: fins, chrome - and the colours: pink, blue, FUN!
My 1951 Iloca is older than most of them, but still going strong. You know how it works: print on 10x15, relax your eyes and hey presto: 3D real stereo! Like the sixties' View-Master. (On FP4 in Rodinal.)

January

You can find these little chapels all over Limburg NL. This one is built by students, shortly after WWII, to commemorate their fallen friends. On the first morning of the year I always go there, light a candle or two, think.

Stereography

This is the almost perfect subject for 3D: objects at all distances. As I said before: it's not art, but the FUN...! (And the weather was once again great, today)
The RetroAgfa400 is not exactly 400, though. (Nag nag nag...)

Santa Claus...

...derives from "Sinterklaas" and today the saint arrived, from Spain, with his steamboat (yes: boat) in the Netherlands. And tonight I'll look at him in stereo through my 1910 viewer (I made appelcrumble with lots of sultanas in apfelkorn).

1951 Iloca, Jlitar 35mm on RolleiRetro 100, not the best for this "winterhard" sunlight-contrast.

You can view it as follows: print on 10x15, eyes relaxed (infinite); it's a trick but you have to practise.

Colour on B&W

It seemed so nice: on my stereo-Iloca left a blue and right a red filter and hey presto: colour pictures. Well, not thàt easy. Because Fomapan 400 isn't very pan; hardly sees the reds, but almost blind for greenish-blue! So let's call it Fomakitrin.
The picture above doesn't work in my Underwood&Underwood (1907?) because it is not stereo - but laid on top of each other, well, it seems not bad, lacking the green of course. Not bad at all...

Stereo

Yes, I know: this is not art. BUT THE FUN! And alas: not right: the right one should be left. We live and learn...

Iloca, Jlitar 35mm (1951) on Fomapan 400 in Rodinal 1:50