Tripod add-on for stereo shooting

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The process of stereo (multi) shooting is more complicated because you have to take the several pictures of your object from different angles, not just one, like in an ordinary flat photography. Of course, it brings some limitations. For example, it is impossible to shoot a moving object. But even if you would like to shoot a motionless object, like a beautiful flower, you have to shoot the several frames as fast as you can, because during the multi shooting period of time some conditions could be changed. For example, the people could appear in your scene, the cloud could hide the sun light, the light wind could swing your flower and so on. Moreover the camera must be moved on the same steps that is an one of the most important requirements for producing the high-quality 3D lenticular pictures. But you are a photographer and your attention has to be involved in a photographic process and released from the careful calculating of each moving step. Therefore each 3D photographer has to have a device that must:

1. accelerate the process of multi shooting,
2. move your camera on the same steps,
3. allow to choose the different steps,
4. to be easy in use,
5. to be not big and not heavy.

Friend of mine from Germany, he is a talented engineer and an enthusiast of 3D photography, Georg Mainow, designed and made a nice tripod add-on (pictures 1 - 4) that satisfies these requirements.

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It is a compact and lightweight device. This tripod add-on has just 31 cm of length but it can move your camera up to 48 cm (pictures 5 - 9). That allows you to take a 3D picture of subject that could be remote from camera up to 100 meters.

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The Tripod Add-on could be easily aligned by horizontal line and the camera could be lopsided and fixed at a necessary angle (picture 10).

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This tripod add-on has seven lines. Each line consists of 12 holes located on the same distance from each other (picture 11).

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These lines have the steps of 4 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm, 15 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm. Therefore the maximum camera shift with using these lines could be 44 mm, 66 mm, 88 mm, 110 mm, 165 mm, 220 mm and 330 mm. That is enough to take 3D pictures with a distance to an object from 20 centimeters up to 15 - 20 meters. That covers most of cases that photographer needs. Moreover you have to choose the line of holes that you need and then just push the camera button and move your camera up to click (picture 11). So, you do not need to pay attention to the ruler. Just move your camera, listen the "click" sound and shoot after each "click".

The stereobase depends on a scene. The necessary line of holes and quantity of steps depends on the stereobase. For example, to shoot a stereo portrait from 1 - 1.5 meters distance, the stereobase should be 6 cm. Then using a line of holes with a 6 mm steps it is possible to make eleven frames. But if we take an advantage of 10 mm steps of holes line, we will make just seven frames.

Luckily we have a good software for stereobase calculation. There is a "MultiStereoBase" software.

If we would like to have the total shift more then 33 cm, we could attach a ruler on the back of the tripod add-on and move a camera checking the steps with them (picture 4). The biggest stereobase is 48 cm.

The complete set of tripod add-on you could see on the pictures 12.

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I am glad to inform you that now you can order this tripod add-on right from this web-site. After ordering your device will be made in 5 - 10 business days and sent you by mail. If you have any questions about this tripod add-on you could contact
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The price on the tripod add-on is 380 EUROS.
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