About

Being a long time enthusiast amateur photographer who bought his first camera, a Pentax Spotmatic 500 in 1971, I enjoy experimenting with both photography and editing techniques.

An interest in stereo/3D/depth photography started in year 2000, shortly after buying my first digital camera, an Olympus C-3030z. At first using the cha-cha method, but soon I bought a rail to help better control alignment and the magnitude of the displacement between the two exposures. When Fujifilm’s Real 3D W1, a dedicated stereo camera with two lenses and two sensors became available in 2009, I got one of those. More recently, I have made a stereo rig out of two Sony RX100 III cameras and an assortment of standard rigging parts, and have also become interested in the approach where you arrive at a stereo image from one normal 2D photograph and its corresponding depth map, obtained from a smartphone. Along the way, I owned a light field camera, the LYTRO Illum – a camera that pretty much force you to think in terms of depth.

In 2017 I started doing infrared photography using a 665 nm converted Fujifilm X-E1 camera, that was replaced by a 720 nm converted Fujifilm X-T2 in 2020.

This blog is set up to enable sharing of thoughts and experience in the hope that may occasionally be helpful. I am not 100% nerd; I actually do photographs, and have a separate site dedicated to that here

Karsten Bruun Qvist, Copenhagen, Denmark