Wednesday, August 20, 2003
It worked last week …
About a week ago, I was able to successfully mount my home directory, which is on a Linux box, to the Windows XP box we have, using samba. This week however, it's acting strangly.
Map the drive; it's successful. Try listing some files …
Z:\>dir
Volume in drive Z is ?
Volume Serial Number is 2E0D-011F
Directory of Z:\
File Not Found
Z:\>dir *.jpg
Volume in drive Z is ?
Volume Serial Number is 2E0D-011F
Directory of Z:\
11/12/2000 09:32 PM 15,678 seanroy.jpg
09/05/2002 11:00 PM 7,134 flower.thumb.jpg
04/28/2003 11:32 PM 77,731 Untitled-4.jpg
04/28/2003 11:33 PM 130,531 Untitled-5.jpg
04/28/2003 11:33 PM 137,230 Untitled-9.jpg
04/28/2003 11:33 PM 143,943 Untitled-20.jpg
04/28/2003 11:33 PM 165,048 Untitled-27.jpg
04/28/2003 11:33 PM 128,356 Dad & elephant.jpg
04/28/2003 11:33 PM 143,821 sean at desk.jpg
9 File(s) 949,472 bytes
0 Dir(s) 8,011,644,928 bytes free
Z:\>
Like I said—wierd. Short directory listings are fine; anything too large (and I'm still trying to define “too large”) and it simply hangs. But it's not like a massive amount of data causes it to hang—I viewed a 40M Quicktime movie so it's not that. And the behavior just started this week. A week ago—it was fine.
I even went so far as to download, configure, install and run the latest
version of samba; it still exhibits the same
problem.
Like I said—wierd.
Then again, this is Windows we're talking about …
3D images!
My maternal grandfather was into photography, mostly films (8mm although he
did some work in Super-8 in his later years) but he did have a few odd-ball
35mm cameras like the Realist 3D 35mm
camera from what looks to be the 50s.
To say it's a manual camera is an understatement. Manual shutter speed,
manual apature and a very odd focusing system; a parallax system where you
line up the top half of the viewport with the lower half. It's a bit harder
than it sounds because the view port itself is this small hole on the back
of the camera along the bottom edge which is hard to see through.
I'd had the camera for years—since 1982 when he died, and I've never gotten around to actually using the camera. Not even when I was taking photography at FAU about ten years ago. I finally played around with it a few years ago, around 1999 or so, by taking some pictures around Condo Conner. Given the manual nature of the 3D camera I also took along my semi-automatic 35mm camera which I used to set proper shutter speed and apature. I had the pictures developed and promptly forgot about them, until one of the Kids found the photos.
In looking at the photos, I realized that I'm going to have to ask them not to cut the negatives since the size of the images are a bit smaller than normal.
To view the image, you'll need to cross your eyes util both images merge into one (you can try with the thumbnail below, but if it's too small, click on it to attempt a larger version), although according to Jason Kottke about 5-10% of people have trouble doing this. I attempted to do a red/blue version for those funky 3D glasses you get at films but I had trouble getting the right shades of red and blue to get it to work properly. Perhaps if I played around with it more I could do it.
But for now, enjoy my first attempt at 3D photography.
![[3D Trees!]](/2003/08/20/a-3d-forest.jpg "3D Trees!")
