This nifty little Icelandic gadget turns your SLR into a 3D camera.
Designed by Kúla, an Icelandic startup founded in March 2011, the "Deeper" uses mirrors to split the light entering the lens, creating a single image with two halves that be combined to create a 3D effect. "Deeper simply splits the field of view, but you only take one photo which results in a side-by-side/stereoscopic image," writes
Íris Ólafsdóttir, founder and CEO of Kúla, in an email to Wired.co.uk. "Some people call it a beamsplitter."
An amateur photographer and trained electrical engineer,
Ólafsdóttir was inspired to make 3D pictures and video a normal part of the memories and experiences we collect with our cameras. "The experience when watching friends and family [in 3D] is much stronger than on normal photos and videos, it feels more like they are there. And this is something that is difficult to explain through normal 2D media," she says. "It certainly is fun to watch aliens in 3D but believe me, it is even more fun when it is your kid or your grandmother."
The Deeper fits a 77mm lens by default but there are adapters for other size lenses. It can also be used to create 3D videos, if your DSLR has video functionality. An accompanying piece of software processes the images and videos into a range of 3D formats.
The eventual retail price of the Deeper isn't currently known, but by pledging €79 (£68) to their €55,000 (£47,000) campaign on KarolinaFund, an Icelandic crowdfunding site, you'll be able to get your hands on one if the campaign is successful. "I myself love shooting normal pictures with my DSLR. Then I see things I know will look cool in 3D and in one click I'm shooting in 3D with Deeper," says Ólafsdóttir. "I want to bring this experience to open-minded SLR camera owners."
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
