DIY 3D Rig?

[Riku Naskali]

Wel... If anyone has good tips how to make height / tilt / roll adjustment stages, let me know :-)

This is what I've been looking at lately: http://www.maedler.de/Article/68611000.aspx

[leehyunmin2010]

HERE NEW 3D field monitor



http://3deyes2010.blogspot.com/2011/...3dmonitor.html

cost $1900+S&H

[Mark Toia]

You 3d guys are all mad... :))))))

[Michael Hastings]

FYI We are making a fairly low cost (~$4K including high quality beamsplitter) here's a press release:

http://www.aquavideo.com/press/AquaV...essrelease.pdf

It is designed to be very lightweight and extremely rigid. (Patent pending design). Got a little sidetracked on production with summer/diving/underwater housing work and waiting for our custom beamsplitter glass (from a major optical coatings company). 14'W x 10"H Borofloat glass and built to the same specs as Element technica's published specs. But we should get a little break here soon and back to making the Aero3D.

I think you will be hardpressed to make a DIY rig that is solid, square, and lightweight for much less (unless you have your own CNC machine) but we will consider selling the glass separately since we had to do a large order to get proper specs and relatively decent pricing. Haven't set a list price yet on the glass (probably about $600 but for the next few weeks will do for $499 if you mention the code REDUSER DIY

[Martin Hebermehl]

So, i´m selling also at first half of 2012 my new Flip/Flop-Rig.
Mechanical adjustment of all Parameters like
-mirror-angle
-vertical-alignment
-horizontal-alignment
-roll
-camera-mount
-Toe in or convergence

At this time we use cameras like Canon XHG1 or XF-Series.
So you can use cameras from small to the Canon likes.
I will make tests with RED one this winter to check out if the mirror dimensions are enough.

Working hard to bring the rig to a final state and the price at this time i´m calculate with 3K Euro.

You can see pictures here (with Sony CX11 mounted, because had no other cameras on set):

http://www.3d-stereorigs.com/pics_e.html

[Dave Blackham]

We designed and had our rigs profesionaly built mostly as what was needed wasnt commercialy available. We wanted very robust rigs that dont flex for custom cameras ie high speed, Timelapse and as light as we could reasnoly create. Tilt, roll and height area easy to ajust as is convergence and IA. manual or Motorised.

If you need to know Mirror suppliers then we can point you in the right direction PM me. They are accurate measured to 2% flat to 1.4 wavelength and AR and properly coated.

[Riku Naskali]

Hi Martin,

That's actually one of the best looking diy rigs I've seen :-)

What are those blue parts under the cameras, I'm assuming they are the camera alignment plates? Did you buy them, or were they custom made?

You have the tilt adjustment with tilting the mirror, right?

The camera adjustment plates are the only thing that I haven't figured out on my own budget diy rig...

[Daniel Kunz]

we made an incredible easy 3D Rig that is really fun to work with. Tripod, Steadycam, Helicopter. we did everything with it:

[Dave Blackham]

We have some rigs proffesionaly built which are super accurate. Make sure you have very fine convergence ajustment and no backlash anywhere so every move is repeatable.

Also the magic happens on the mirror surface. We had mirrors custom built with better than normal AR coatings and flat surface and very accurate split. So they are better than 2% tollerance for 50/50 split, surface better than 1/4 wave length, very good AR coating. You also need very accurate split accross all wave lenghts. These specs are better than most commercial rigs, we think it shows as the images are very good.

Id also build a 1/4 wave retarder for it.

[Dave Blackham]

So, i´m selling also at first half of 2012 my new Flip/Flop-Rig.
Mechanical adjustment of all Parameters like
-mirror-angle
-vertical-alignment
-horizontal-alignment
-roll
-camera-mount
-Toe in or convergence

At this time we use cameras like Canon XHG1 or XF-Series.
So you can use cameras from small to the Canon likes.
I will make tests with RED one this winter to check out if the mirror dimensions are enough.

Working hard to bring the rig to a final state and the price at this time i´m calculate with 3K Euro.

You can see pictures here (with Sony CX11 mounted, because had no other cameras on set):

http://www.3d-stereorigs.com/pics_e.html

Thats a nice rig !