Harold Lloyd's Hollywood Nudes in 3D!

Rating:
Summary: a letdown
Review: Harold Lloyd may have been a brilliant man but they clearly didn't know much about 3-D photography back then. The stereoscopic displacement just doesn't work quite right--the image never really aligns well, and many of the images resist being resolved by the eyes.

Rating:
Summary: Delusion!
Review: Harold Lloyd was a good 3D photographer and managed the 3D very well, only too well I cannot say the same on whom prepared the photos for the book.
I worked several years using stereo photos, I take stereo photos for hobby and I must say that the 3D photos in the book are bad formed and printed.
Often they are misalligned and the colours of the glasses "lens" don't match with the printed colours.
You may try to use green-red glasses, or perhaps it should be better if the two stereo photos were printed side by side (as in the "3D-Hollywood") and not so badly merged as in this book.


Rating:
Summary: Great photos, too bad the 3-D is badly reproduced
Review: Lots of great photos and some good stories, but the the 3-D reproductions don't look/work very well. Compared to a book like the excellent Civil War in Depth, the 3-D is terrible. Side-by-side images is a much better way to reproduce stereo photographs than the botched red/green separation in this book.

Rating:
Summary: Recommended
Review: Yes, some of the 3-D effects might have been done better... but this book has some great pictures, 3D and non-3D, very nicely reproduced, with good content by his granddaughter about Harold Lloyd (at one point one of America's most popular and successful silent screen actors). She writes about his lavish estate, and his obsesson with photography of all types (scenic, travel and nudes). I thought it was fascinating. And he was more than a rich actor who snapped a few (thousand) pictures. These are excellent photographs, the models are pretty, shot with care and a sense of story and playfulness. If you are a pin-up fan you will certainly enjoy this book.