Do it yourself 3-D Video  Kit
Make your own 3-D videos using any video camera. (No special attachments)
View in 3-D on any TV or computer.
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Kit contains: 
Instruction DVD, example 3-D movie 
& 2 pairs of 3-D VIEWMAX pulfrich glasses

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Created by 3-D photographer Ron Keas

"I was born in Salinas California in 1943.  In 1953 my life changed when I saw a 3-D movie.  It was "one of the first ones : The House of Wax", projected with two synchronized projectors and viewed with polarized 3-D glasses.  I left the theater clutching my 3-D glasses, thinking they were magic and soon found out they only worked with a movie that was filmed in 3-D.  It was years before I found out how 3-D photography really worked.  A member of my family; my mother's double cousin, was a photographer and camera designer.  He taught me many methods of how to photograph in 3-D.  By the time I was of draft age, I joined the Navy and attended the Naval School of Photography at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola Florida.  I did two tours of duty as a photographer aboard an aircraft carrier in the first years of the Viet Nam War.  Among my duties was to photograph 3-D stereo views from aircraft, process the film, and print stereo views.  The stereo views were viewed in 3-D with a pair of prismatic lenses. 

At the turn of the Century, stereoscopes and stereographs were the number one form of home entertainment.  A stereograph is comprised of two side by side images.  The images are photographed with a stereo camera that has two lenses spaced about 3 inches apart.  The stereograph is viewed in a stereoscope (prismatic lens stereoviewer).  The two images are combined in the brain as real 3-D.  Stereoscopes and stereographs fell out of favor with the advent of radio and movies.  In 1984 I had the idea of reviving stereo photography with sharp color 3-D images.  I designed a folding prismatic lens stereoviewer that held 4x6" stereographs, and traveled to the major National Parks of America to photograph them in stereo 3-D.  My folding stereoviewer and color stereograph sets were sold on my website, 3-D VIEWMAX From 1984-1999.  Having the 3-D website enabled me to meet Arthur C. Clark online.  We became e-friends, exchanging ideas on 3-D photography.  Arthur told me that, as a child, he attributed his original interest in science to having received a set of 3-D Dinosaur stereographs and a stereoscopic viewer.  He said he had just recently donated his stereograph sets and viewer to the Smithsonian Museum.  This gave me the idea to set up detailed Dinosaur models in a terrarium setting and photographing them in 3-D.  I used dry ice for fog, black light on a Volcano, and colored floodlights.  The terrarium contained ponds, rocks, ferns, miniature trees, etc.  The stereograph sets I made came out beautifully.  I sent several sets of my Dinosaur stereographs and stereo viewers to Arthur's home in Shri Lanka.  He wrote back and told me he loved my 3-D effects and that he was showing them to the kids in Shri Lanka.

In the year 2000 the Mars Rovers landed on Mars.  I anxiously awaited the first images from NASA to appear on the internet.  As soon as the first few pictures came through, I copied them.  The pictures were all in 2D, but I know how to derive 3-D stereographs from the images.  By carefully selecting a specific pair of images from a Rover pan, I made several stereographs and posted them on the internet.  The next day I made front page news as having released the first 3-D images from Mars.  I was even a couple of days ahead of NASA in doing this.  My Martian stereograph prints were sold online with my folding stereo viewer for the next few years.

During the next decade I learned about all other types of 3-D photography including red and cyan anaglyphs, single camera stereo photography, polarized, split frame , linticular, and pulfrich. In particular I have experimented with pulfrich 3-D.  Pulfrich 3-D  is the easiest and least expensive of all 3-D photographic illusions.  I have compiled all of what I have learned by working with the pulfrich effect into a kit containing an instruction DVD, an example DVD #-D movie, and 2 pair of 3-D VIEWMAX  pulfrich glasses.  You can view the instruction DVD on your TV or computer.  If you wear the 3-D glasses, the DVD will be in 3-D.  Without the glasses you can still see the DVD in 2-D.  The kit only costs $25.00 so everyone can have fun with 3-D.  Great for families and classrooms"  - Ron Keas