This document provides an overview of the author's introduction to 3D photography and filmmaking. It discusses the author's early experiences with stereo cards and Prague postcards [1]. It also outlines the history of 3D, including its popularity in the 1950s with cameras like the Realist and before then with Nazi Germany's use of 3D books [2]. The document goes into methods for capturing 3D photographs and video using various cameras and software as well as projecting 3D content [3]. It concludes by discussing digital distribution of 3D content and promoting the experience of 3D.

1. Stealing Sacred Fire;
A crash course in 3D
Mark Bennett
zspacemedia.blogspot.co.uk
Youtube.com/blackicemagazine

2. Some of these images are 3d

3. My Introduction to 3D
• Parents stereo cards
• Paranormal lab and ectoplasm
• Prague fold open postcards
• Prague camera shop

6. The Realist my first 3D camera
• Popular in the 50's
• Advertised by movie stars
• Harold Loydl ran the Hollywood 3D society

18. Before the 50's; Nazi 3D
• German's 3D peak
• Commemorative invasion books
• Various subjects covered
• Repackaged after the war

23. Viewing Stereo Pairs
• Eye distance defines sizes
• Stereoscopes haven't changed
• Anaglyphs still cheap and easy; even for video

33. How to take photographs like an Astronaut
• Cha-cha method with 1 camera
• used with iPad, iPhone and Android app
• Mock 3D camera's with one lens (pentax)
• Assemble in Photoshop torturous
• Free or almost free software: Stereo Photo
Maker, Stereo Movie Maker, Anaglyph Maker
• Full colour or B/W?

42. Projected 3D; the Game changer that Inspired
Me into Filming
• VR headsets instant headaches
• Brian Mcclaves; Solar 1+2 at the Catalyst Club
• Low res PAL output to 100hz projectors
• Mirror rig one camera, two fields
• www.site-eye.co.uk/timelapse_films.html

46. It takes Two Cameras??
• How to link them Stereo Data Maker
• Hijacking Canon's camera's operating system
• Cross your fingers and hope its in sync Canon Ixus
• GoPro's special cable and case
• It takes One Camera with two lenses
• Four Lens or more???
• Bullet time on a budget

58. What I Shoot & Show With
• 120mm 3D
• Sputnik
• Stereo realist
• Sony Dev 3
• Sony TD10
• Sony MTS muxed file format

75. Glassless 3D; it’s bigger each year
• How it works
• The Fuji W1, the Fuji W3 and the 3d glassless
mobiles
• Tablet errors and quality control at Gadmei
• Apple iPad demo footage and its already has
content

79. Digital Distribution
• 3D TVs are passe its Smart TVs (with 3d)
• Set top boxes
• Countries are dead. Why wait for Sky and the
BBC?
• www.3doo.com and more internationally
• 3D Kickstarter campaign and venue support
The Torture Garden

80. Make it Personal
• Experience with 3D glassless tablets
• Richer Sounds feedback
• Poke vs Explore 3D
• The Keepers of 3D; The Stereoscopic Society
• Phil McNally aka Captain 3D
• Its about experience
• Will BBC and Sky ever catch up