David Cole has taken two hacked Panasonic GH1 cameras, and a mirror box to film an elephant in stereoscopic 3-D. The main problem that needed overcoming was the need to synchronize the two cameras, but that seems to have been solved now. You will need your red/cyan anaglyph glasses to view the movie.
The rig utilises a large mirror box, two GH1s with hacked firmware and manual focus Nikon lenses and is now operational. The footage above is an anaglyph from the camera, and you’ll require 3D glasses for the 3D effect of course.
The main challenge was to power-up both cameras in perfect sync. David found the AF system on the Olympus 9-18mm Micro 4/3rds lenses were non-deterministic, randomly effecting the synchronisation of the cameras by small margins. Recording needs to happen in perfect sync otherwise the 3D effect begins to fail.
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Ack! Video codecs aren’t designed for anaglyph data… There’s a reason YouTube has a dedicated stereoscopic encoding and playback system.