DrT's Stereo Tutorials - Wealth of Stereoscopic Information

This publication consists of 90 Tutorials on Stereo Photography, arranged in nine parts:

All the topics (see below) are explained clearly with plenty of illustrations. Great reading for the beginner and advanced stereo photographer!

Please Note: If you are primarily interested in Digital Stereo Photography, I recommend this publication: Digital Stereo Photography Tutorial, a publication by Michael Beech. It is a book on CD, consisting of 128 pages of instruction in Adobe PDF format, plus 119 illustrations, figures, and stereo images in parallel, cross-view and anaglyph presentation. Price is $25, plus shipping, and you can buy it by clicking at the link above.

TABLE OF CONTENTS A "Crash Course" in STEREO PHOTOGRAPHY By Jim Motley and George Themelis
Part I - Getting Started With a Manual Stereo Camera 1 - Overview 1 2 - Films For Stereo 2 3 - Exposure Challenge 3 4 - More on Exposure 4 5 - Shutter Speed & Motion 5 6 - Focus & Depth Of Field 6 7 - Aperture & Hyperfocal 7 8 - Normal Stereo Photography 8 9 - Low Light & Flash Photography 9 10 - Close Up Stereo Photography 10	Part II - Beyond the Stereo Camera 1 - What is Stereo? 11 2 - Stereoscopic Deviations 12 3 - The Stereo Window 13 4 - Stereo Window II 14 5 - Beyond the Stereo Camera 16 6 - Stereo Base 17 7 - Focal Length (Viewing Distance) 19 8 - Stereo Mounting 21 9 - Stereo (Free) Viewing 23 10 - Overview & Quiz 24
Part III - "How To" (Techniques in Stereo) 1 - Answers to the Stereo Quiz 25 2 - Practical Stereo Slide Mounting 26 3 - Stereo Slide Mounting II 28 4 - How to Hold the Stereo Camera 30 5 - How to Take Single Camera Stereos 32 6 - Single Camera Stereos II (Shift) 34 7 - Single Camera Stereos III 36 8 - How to Do Trick Stereo Photography 38 9 - Trick & Creative 3d Photography II 40 10 - Overview & Quiz 42	Part IV - Stereo Hardware 1 - Count your p's! 45 2 - Realist-Format Stereo Cameras 47 3 - European-Format Stereo Cameras 49 4 - Realist Stereo Slide Viewers 51 5 - Realist Stereo Slide Projection 53 6 - 2x2x2 Stereo Format 55 7 - Medium Stereo Format 57 8 - Digital Stereo Photography (John Hart) 59 9 - 4p & View-Master Stereo 63 10 - Stereo Attachments 65
Part V - Stereo Composition 1 - Tips for Better Stereo Pictures 67 2 - Object Placement 69 3 - More Tips for Better Composition 71 4 - More Tips for Better Composition II 73 5 - 2D vs. 3D Pictures 75 6 - The Element of Depth 77 7 - Improving Composition by Cropping/Mounting 79 8 - Improving Composition using the Stereo Window 81 9 - Perception for Stereo Photographers (Jared E. Bendis) 83 10 - BONUS: 3D Projection Screen Testing 85	Part VI - Miscellaneous Topics 1 - Getting Started in Stereo Photography 89 2 - Judging Stereo Pictures 91 3 - Judging Stereo Pictures II 95 4 - Working with Stereo Prints 97 5 - Retinal Rivalry 99 - Breaking the Rule About Retinal Rivalry (Jim Gasperini) 100 6 - A Question of How Many? 101 7 - Popularity of Stereo Today 103 8 - Which Camera Took this Picture? 105 9 - Stereoscopic Vision 107 10 - Stereoscopic Vision II 109 11 - Autostereoscopic Displays 111
Part VII - Miscellaneous Topics II 1 - Educating the Public about Stereoscopy & Stereo Photography 113 2 - Flash in Stereo - Part I 115 3 - Flash in Stereo - Part II 119 4 - Simple Guide to Mounting (Geoff Ogram) 123 - Additional Comments on Mounting 125 - Medium Format Revisited + Comment on Stereo mounting 127 5 - Stereo With a Flatbed Scanner (Jay Horowitz) 128 6 - Getting Started in Digital Camera Stereo (David Starkman) 130 7 - Medium Format Stereo (Oleg Vorobyoff & Jim Harp) 134 8 - Digital Stereo Photography State of Art (John Hart) 139 - Pocket PC & 3D! 144 9 - Story Behind the Picture "For Carol" (Jay Horowitz) 145	Part VIII - Miscellaneous Topics III 1 - Mounting w/RBT Mounts - Part I 147 2 - Mounting w/RBT Mounts - Part II 149 3 - Mounting w/RBT Mounts - Part III 151 4 - Sound in 3d Shows - Part I 154 5 - Sound in 3d Shows - Part II 157 6 - Title Slides Using a Computer 161 (w/contribution by Lee Pratt) 6 - Title Slides w/out a Computer 163 7 - Free Viewing Fun - Part I 166 8 - Free Viewing Fun - Part II 169
Part IX - Miscellaneous Topics IV 1 - Stereo in 2006 173 2 - The Three Golden Rules of Stereo Photography 176 3 - Our Stereo Treasures and What Will Become of Them 180 4 - Stereo in 2006 - Update 184 5 - View-Master with or without a VM Camera (w/Kevin Pernicano) 188 6 - Getting Started with StereoPhoto Maker (by Jay Horowitz) 190 7 - Anaglyphs (by Ray Zone) 194

These Tutorials are put together in a spiral bound volume and also include a 4 page "Crash Course" in Stereo Photography. The tutorials appeared in the 1998-2006 issues of the "Stereogram", the newsletter of the Ohio Stereo Photographic Society. I have been the Editor of the Stereogram since its beginning in 1997.

Note: Some of you might have purchased an earlier version of this Tutorial.
I can supply any missing parts for $5 each (plus $2 shipping)

"I wanted to add my comments to your collection about the tutorial ... I have *a lot* of stereo photography instruction books and assorted bookmarks in my web browsers. After spending the last few days reading your tutorial I must say that there are concepts I never understood that are now perfectly clear. Thank you for putting a lot of theory into plain English." - Mike Bittner

"I found your introduction to basic photography a very worthwhile and illuminating reading material. It clarified a number of subjects which were not adequately sorted out in my mind.... The concepts of 'window' and hyper-focal distance were particularly enlightening." - Yair Sachs

I consider this to be my best work! (so far!)

DrT's Stereo Photography Tutorial