Just when I thought I just about had a handle on things, along comes 3D, a whole new regime to have to scramble to learn.

So here's an experiment and it is not all good at all. To viewe it in 3D, you have to sit back from your monitor, stick your finger up in front of your eyes, focus initially on it and send yourself crosseyed so that you see three frames instead of two, then focus on something in center of the centre frame.


This was shot with two Sony Z1's on a common bar, my aviation rig, as close together as they can be, both cameras harmonised to a point about 6 metres distant. From the outset, it seems that harmonising the cameras onto a convergent point is not the go. If you view the footage carefully, you will see at one point the cat's tail appears to become detached from its body.

One apparent limitation appears to be that wide lenses don't work so well. My guess is that the "normal" lens, which in the case of 1/3" Z1s would be about zoom at 14mm, should be predominently used so as to more naturally represent the human eye view and the perspectives which becomes a little limiting creatively. My second guess is that a more pleasing presentation would be to shoot a mix of 3D and 2D footage.

As the camera swings right into the grass, you will have to focus on the right edge of the white box otherwise your eyes will come unglued from convergence.