Barrie Reynolds died suddenly on Saturday 10th February 2024. His connections with people across the world via Flickr have been an important part of his life.

Most of my images here are stereo cross-view (free-view) images. There are several guides to viewing stereo cross-view images on the web. My contribution is here:

www.dropbox.com/s/7uhblknxwvc1654/viewing%20stereo%20imag...

There is also an animated tutorial here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvShotHl1As

I am a keen stereo photographer and camera collector, previously using a pair of Minolta A200 cameras in custom-made landscape and portrait arrangements, but using good old-fashioned synchronised fingers (or remote trigger). They are being superseded by a pair of Panasonic Lumix G1s with a pair of radio triggers to a common actuator, opening up the use of a wider range of micro 4/3 lenses.

My camera of choice as a travel camera, because of the ease of use, is a Fujifilm Real 3D W3. The stereo cameras are now joined (May 2017) by a Sony Bloggie 3D - a curious stereo camera with reduced separation between the lenses, which nevertheless does produce 'conventional' image pairs with a sense of depth, and slips into the pocket even easier than the Fuji 3D W3.

I am experimenting with various external close-up lenses for the Bloggie to take advantage of its design in close-up stereo work. Results with one large single 150mm or 200mm focal length close-up lens over both lenses are encouraging.

My preferred viewing mode is free-viewing by cross-view, but I have a Pokescope and a Holmes viewer for parallel images, anaglyph glasses, and a Gadmei E8 8 inch stereo parallax display tablet (3D without glasses), That tablet is for my friends who somehow find it difficult to view the stereo cross-view arrangement.

I have used several cameras in hand-held cha-cha mode for stereo work, and I still take my stereo film cameras for a walk occasionally (Iloca and Stereo Realist)