ABSTRACT
Cinematography is all about catching light on film and reproducing it on a screen. Stereography is all about doing it twice and get these two pictures perfectly replicated on a single screen. In a nutshell, you’ll make two pictures, with perfect control of both cameras’ parameters and relative positions. Most of the tricks presented here for hooking together two still cameras work fine with pairs of video cameras for shooting 3D. Press the shutter halfway so that both cameras process the focus and speed, and press down full only when both cameras have stopped computing the shoot settings. The synchronization is enhanced using two tricks. The first is to use the infrared remote, if there is one. The second is to open the cameras and pull lines from the shutter button connectors to a single two-level breaker. What makes it suitable for 3D is its ability to switch the camera on and off and to get the video clock signal.
