The San Francisco / Bay Area's Club for Stereo Photography Enthusiasts
Stereo photography — 3-D photography — is the marvelous craft of making pictures with the illusion of depth.
Join us at a twice-monthly meeting on Zoom to learn the art of stereo photography and experience fantastic 3-D slideshows.
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3D Groups.io groups
Thanks to author Linda Nygren PHOTO-3D lives! (And other Email/Online discussion groups) August 2020 The photo-3d group is a community with a long history, starting as a listserv in the mid-1980’s. It has moved several times and evolved from an email-only group to include a strong online presence, on Yahoo Groups (YG) for almost 20…
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ANDRÉ RUITER PHOTOGRAPHY
ANDRÉ RUITER PHOTOGRAPHY note: has some wonderful old stereoviews, very nice layout and photographs of stereoviewers. Nice collection of nudes.
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Stereoscopy and the Human Visual System
Academic paper delving into how stereoscopic vision works.Stereoscopy and the Human Visual System One of the authors, Martin Banks, has a lab at Berkeley
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3D-Con 2020 Presentation
More will be added after the talk There are a lot of overlapping images and some animations, so run the presentation with speaker’s notes. Google Slides Presentation Link to the recording of the presentationAlso, Dr. T (George Themelis) did a fantastic presentation on using flash at the 2017 3D-Con. Really worth reading his presentation. I…
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Stereoscopic Media
Stereoscopic Media is dedicated to the dissemination of academic research in the humanities on all forms of stereoscopic media: photography, cinema, computer games and other new media. It was initiated by Dr. Miriam Ross and Dr. Leon Gurevitch in 2011 with the aim of bringing together high quality critical thought and investigation of past and…
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Affinity Photo
One of the top competition to Photoshop, has most of PS’s features and a similar UI. The company has been making graphics software longer* than Photoshop has been around. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ It normally retails for $49.99 but sometimes goes on sale for $25 (Black Friday is one possible time). One time license, NOT a subscription. Has…
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THE ANIMATED VIEW-MASTER WEBSITE
The world of View-Master in an animated style. See the viewers in a 360-view, the history, the reels, the envelopes and look around in the View-Master Shop.https://www.worteldrie.com/view-master/ From the creator of the site:My name is Rob Mulders and I live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.My view-master collection started with the camera. Then I discovered the fun…
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GreatWarin3D.org – Stereographic Images of WWI
This is the online site for the Boyd/Jordan collection of stereographs related to the Great War (WWI). Stereoscopic photography was a popular pastime in the Great War period, and companies in most of the warring nations sold stereoviews. This web site describes the manufacturers of photographic stereoviews and explains how to identify them based on their markings. Scans…
Next Meeting
We meet the first and second Tuesday of each month on Zoom. All are welcome!
Date & Time
Open Division
Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 7:00pm – 9:00pm PT
Special Division
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 7:00pm – 9:00pm PT
Submission Deadline
Open Division
Monday, March 2, 2026
Special Division
Monday, March 9, 2026
Special Subject
Motion Blur – Capture a kinetic scene where one element is blurred by motion while the rest of the 3D environment remains sharp