Stereo photography is a method to take three-dimensional images. The technology was developed in the late 1800s and involves a form of double shooting. By stereoscopy, we can take ...
Stereo photography is a method to take three-dimensional images. The technology was developed in the late 1800s and involves a form of double shooting. By stereoscopy, we can take pictures that are perceived as three-dimensional. A camera for stereo photography can take two photographs at the same time, with a delay corresponding to the distance between our eyes, about six centimeters. When we look at the two images at the same time with an eye on each image, we are experiencing a depth in the picture as if we looked at the subject from the camera angle in the shooting moment.
The technique was used already in the late 1800s and with special stereoscopes could people look at lifelike pictures from foreign countries. Stereo photographs quickly became very popular and offered the viewer an opportunity to travel in the imagination and "visit" distant and exotic places.
The National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, Sweden has a large collection of stereo photographs. Most of them are from around 1900. The most of them has been given to the museum along with different kinds of viewing apparatus for stereo photography.
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