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I have been secretly passionate with 3D photography since I was a young lad.
Thus, I find it hard to comprehend the technological advancements that have led us to this point in the last few years; it is an exciting time that requires me to pinch myself to believe it is here.
For the first time since its initial popularity in the 1950s, 3D has the potential to transcend beyond a novelty and genuinely become a part of daily life.
There are a ton of 3D movies in theaters and a ton of 3D TVs in electrical stores, and people are purchasing these devices in large quantities.
The tipping point has arrived.
Since a cardboard viewer with colored lenses dropped out of my Weetabix packet when I was eight years old, in the mid-1950s, I have been completely engrossed in 3D photos. I cherished the novel realm it revealed.
Using a camera I paid twelve and a half pence for at Woolworths, I learnt how to take stereoscope photographs, which are a simple kind of three-dimensional image.
The first image was aligned with your left eye, and the second one with your right.
When the images were created and placed next to one another, a 3D image materialized in front of you when you peered through a stereoscopic viewer!
I was enthralled with 3D throughout the Queen years, getting to know expert dealers while we traveled the globe.
I had already conditioned my eyes to focus on “free view,” which is the same method required to perceive Magic Eye images, by that point.
so that I could quickly select the stereographs I desired by looking through pictures.
Many people are unaware that 3D photography dates back to 1838. I quickly developed an intense passion for collecting T.R. Williams, one of its incredibly gifted 19th-century pioneers.
I am almost as pleased of the text I co-wrote for a book featuring his stunning stereographs, A Village Lost and Found, two years ago, as I am of everything we accomplished with Queen.
Still, Williams belongs to the past of 3D. Filmmakers like James Cameron (Avatar), Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3), and Robert Zemeckis (Polar Express) have the potential to save it, in my opinion.
I very clearly recall being astounded by the 3D effects when I went to watch Avatar. I had been waiting my entire life for this.
These gentlemen are really enthusiastic about 3D and I had the pleasure of interviewing them for a Sky documentary I am producing about its history.
Naturally, there have been 3D movies in the past, with brief fads in the 1950s and 1980s, but this time, I think the 3D effect is just too good to pass up.
