Photo3-D 303

Review:
If 3-D photos don't give you a headache, you might like Photo 3-D, a kit for making photos that jump out of you.

Photo 3-D consists of a gizmo that turns your digital camera into a 3-D picture taker, and software that compiles the finished photos. Included are several pairs of blue-and-red 3-D glasses, and a small tripod that doubles as a hand grip.

The gizmo is a kind of like a level that you screw into your camera's tripod mount (in fact, there is a level built into it). You snap one shot with your camera at the extreme left, then another with it at the extreme right - the device is sized to simulate the distance between an average person's eyes (it's stereoscopic). You then download the images to your computer and call them up in the 3-D software, which blends them into a single image, the sort that looks sort of out of focus when you look at it with the naked eye, but which pops out at you when you put on those 1950's-style glasses.

It all works pretty much as promised, although if you take pictures of people, you have to make sure they sit very, very still while you take the required two shots.

Reviewed by Adam Gaffin