How many pictures can I send?
Each reel consists of 7 different images. They will doubled within the production process, so each eye gets its own image (therefore the 14 "holes").
If you have real 3-D images send your 14 L/R images or your 7 MPO files.
In what format should they be?
In general: All images will work. No matter if grainy night shots taken with a mobile, high-quality scenery photos, scanned drawings, Photoshop artwork, ...
More in detail: The native View-Master aspect ratio is ca 12:11 in landscape format. So panorama (i.e. 16:9 format) or upright images don't fit very well, but can be processed without any problem. Unused space will kept black.
Here are some examples:
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Portrait/Upright |
Square |
Optimal |
The technical aspect: Your images should be in JPEG, PNG or MPO format. Optimal resolution is 1400x1250 pixels. If your images have more or less, don't worry – more is fine of course, and less aswell: even photos with around 600 pixels look stunning!
Apart from the rounded corners nothing will be cropped or hidden.
Will the images appear in the right order in the reel?
The images will processed in their alphabetical order.
Example:
- Carl.jpg
- Anne.jpg
- Bill.jpg
will be in this order:
- Anne.jpg
- Bill.jpg
- Carl.jpg
To be on the safe side, just name your images 1 – 7.
What about the image quality? Is it fine enough for...
Yes it is. We use some of the world's sharpest film recorders. You can expect fine details, clearly readable text, exact colour reproduction.
What about the viewer?
We are very happy to have found a source of high-quality viewers. Despite the horrible "Stereo-Vision" viewers (we sold them for a short time but stopped it because of the low quality) we sell these US-designed new viewers.
These are the only focusing ones available, making it possible to adjust the sharpness individually.
What's the difference between 4k and 8k?
4k and 8k means the resolution in which your slide is being recorded. 8k = 8192 Pixels, 4k = 4096 pixels. An 8k film recorder produces sharper images then a 4k recorder because of its finer electron beam, better optic and more precise electronic. That means, even a 4k slide from such machine is of better quality than a 4k slide produced by a 4k recorder.
We use several 8k recorders. These machines can operate in a fast 4k mode, producing good slides, and in an 8k mode, which ist considerable slower but results in excellent slides.
Here are some examples:
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4k
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These examples are crops from a file with 3544 × 2516 pixel (= 9 Megapixels). This is less then 4k.
They are 0.6/0.8mm on the slide. If your screen has a width of 2m then you see them with a size of 35/45mm. |
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This wrist watch is 0.2mm on the slide (about 10mm in projection). |
Here are crops from an 8k resolution testchart:
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Which types of images can be converted to slides?
It doesn't matter if you send images from your digital camera, Photoshop artwork, scanned images or whatever.
Which file types can be processed?
We can handle virtually every file type. Mostly used (and strongly recommended) are JPEG and TIFF.
Please flatten images befor saving to TIFF or PSD.
If you're a Mac user, please save your TIFFs in “IBM PC” mode.
TIFFs should be compressed with LZW.
