Cyclopital3D Lighted Print Viewer User Manual
C
yclopital
3D
Lighted Print Viewer
Owners Manual
Viewer Package Includes:
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Main Body, Book Viewer
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3D Print Holder
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CD or flash with two image processing templates
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Sample Prints
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Owner’s Manual
Benefits, Features & Specifications:
• Perfect for modern sized images taken with the Fuji W3/W1
• Detachable print holder allows easy viewing of standard 4 x 6 prints or
custom photo books
• Focus adjustment allows glasses-free viewing for most people
• Tripod mount for tabletop viewing or handle grip
• Efficient, white LED lamps provide bright, uniform illumination. Color
temperature is 5000K
• Portable, 6 hours of continuous viewing using two AA batteries
• Stunningly wide 47 degree field of view accommodates ortho-stereo
viewing for photos taken with the Fuji W3, W1 or other digital camera
capable of capturing wide-angle stereo photos.
• Fully coated, precision optics with large achromatic lenses and collapsible
eye-cups to block stray light
• Automatic power saving timer turns off lights after 2 minutes
• Formatting templates included for convenient printing at home or a print
shop or service. Print holder accommodates 10 prints at once
• Image size is 61mm x 48mm (per side) centered on standard 4 x 6 prints
with 2mm center spacing
• Dimensions: Viewer size 146 x 90 x 115mm (5.75 x 3.5 x 3.5”) WxHxD
Print holder 160 x 102 x 23mm (6.3 x 4 x .9”)
• Weight with batteries: 510g (18oz)
*Note: not compatible with antique-sized stereo cards
Viewer Usage
• Insert photos into photo holder
• Push button on top, right-side of unit to turn
on the lights (1)
• Adjust focus as needed to achieve clarity (2)
• If glasses are needed, eye-cups are
collapsible
• To use for photo books, detach photo holder by pushing in two tabs at the
base of the Viewer (3)
• Batteries are located at the top, front of Viewer secured with a single
screw. Rechargeable AA batteries are recommended (4).
• Clean lenses with optical lens clothes only
• Attach optional handle grip or tripod as desired for comfort
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Preparing Your Images for the Viewer
For best results, it’s important that your prints are formatted and sized properly
and printed with a high quality system that minimizes pixelation. In personal
printers, we highly recommend the Canon Selphy CP800/900 Desktop Printer
that uses a dye sublimation process and sells for only $90 at B & H Photo and
Amazon. In professional printers, the “Continuous Tone” print process used in
the Fuji Frontier systems found at some Walgreens Drug Stores can also
produce good results. Ink jet printers are NOT recommended.
The recommended formatting procedure is detailed here. The process requires
that you download two free software programs from the internet, StereoPhoto
Maker and IrfanView, instructions are given below.
Preliminary Set-up:
• Confirm that you have the latest version of StereoPhoto Maker (SPM),
v4.37 or newer. If you need a free download or update for SPM, go to
http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/
• Confirm that you have the latest version of IrfanView, v4.28 or greater. If
you need a free download or update, go to http://www.irfanview.com/
• Create a new folder on the root of your C Drive to be used exclusively for
your Print Viewer image processing, named: 3D_PrintViewer. Within the
3D_Print Viewer folder create 3 folders with the names: MPOs, Temp,
Ready2Print. If you use these exact names, the templates will pre-fill the
dialogs and make the formatting process easier.
• Your Print Viewer package includes a CD or flash drive containing two
image processing templates, “LPV_SPM_Tmplt.mcv” and
“LPV_IV_Tmplt.ini”; copy the templates into your new 3D_PrintViewer
folder. The templates can also be downloaded from the Cyclopital3D
website at http://www.cyclopital3d.com/support/
Full Formatting Instructions, STEP 1:
• Start SPM. When it opens, you will see a black screen
• Sort your photos and select the MPO files you wish to print. Copy them
into the MPOs folder you created under the 3D_PrintViewer folder
• Click: “File” from top menu, then “MultiConversion…” to see dialog
box shown on page 4
• Click “Restore(File)” near the bottom right of screen and a new, smaller
dialog box will appear as shown below:
Quick Print Instructions for one photo:
• Open StereoPhoto Maker
• Choose File> Open Stereo Image
• Set image background color: File>Print Stereo card, on bottom ride side
of dialog box “BG color,” select black. Right below BG color, check the
box for “Full Page.” Then, “x” out of the dialog box. (This step might
not be necessary after setting it the first time)
• To identify the printer and print parameters: choose File> Print
Setup>Printer (box on bottom right). Select the Selphy printer, choose
paper size 4x6 Postcard, Landscape orientation and click “OK.”
• In the Print Setup dialog box: enter print width size 120mm (height will
automatically adjust), check “Print Center” box and click “OK.” Click
OK again to print.
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• Using the “Look in” drop down box, locate the template file:
“LPV_SPM_Tmplt.mcv” (in the 3D_PrintViewer folder) select it and click
“Open” to load it and revert to “Multi Conversion” dialog.
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“Restoring” the dialog from the template file in the last step will populate the
Multi Conversion Dialog with parameters appropriate for converting MPO files
from your Fuji W1 or W3 camera to intermediate files that will be further processed with IrfanView (shown below). The end result will be .jpg files that are
ready to be printed by a print service provider (recommended) or possibly on
your own high quality printer. Of course, alternate workflow and formatting
options are possible.
• From the drop down list, select “Input the deviation(%) of the image width”
and also set the value to 3.5% as shown below. Important: Performing Auto
Alignment on the MPO images will set the spacing of homologous “far
points” in the prints to the proper distance for the Lighted Print Viewer.
• Note, If images were taken using the Cyclopital3D Auxiliary Lens Adapter,
you may want to check the box to “Correct barrel distortion” and set it’s
parameter appropriately (value is dependent on which lens was used with the
ALA, for Raynox HD-5050 set value to 35).
• In the “Multi Conversion” Dialog change “Look In” to the folder that contains the MPO images you want to format for use in the Print Viewer.
• The “Output Folder” should be set to the “Temp” folder you created to hold
the temporary image files that will be generated by this step.
The fields in the Multi Conversion Dialog should look similar to what is
shown above. Note that the “Width” field is set to 1441 and the “Height” to
1134, this is done for you when you “Restore(File)” but the fields in the dialog
don’t show the whole numbers, the LS digits are hidden.
• Click the “Auto alignment Setting” button and set the window adjustment
field in the dialog box, as shown on next page (6).
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• Click “OK” to close Auto Alignment Setting dialog and revert to “Multi
Conversion” dialog box.
• Click “Convert All Files” and wait for the conversion process to complete.
Note; if “Multi Job” was checked you will see two processing dialogs, this is
normal. The “Multi Job” will use two cores of a multi-core processor and
image processing will complete twice as fast.
• When image processing is complete, exit the processing dialog(s) and close
SPM. Proceed on to step 2.
IMPORTANT!!! Unfortunately, the actual value for the percent deviation is
not stored in the .mcv file, so you MUST SET the percentage value in the
Auto alignment setting dialog before you start the batch process in SPM
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