[MF3D.FORUM:87] Re: New viewer for formerly least talked about format

[Richard Rylander <rlrylander@xxxxxxx>]

Sam wrote:

> Glad there has been interest in this system.
>
> First of all, I don't have any pictures of the camera, but will ask Darcy
> for some as well as stereo shots of the viewer.
>
> The sliding lens board moves left and right across the front. Full right,
> cock the shutter and click, full left for the second. No transposing
> required, a simple contact print with no mount needed, although a cardboard
> mount is nice. Right now Darcy is using the two enlarger lenses without a
> shutter, as when fully stopped down an exposure of 1-3 seconds allows using
> a black card to hand expose the images. I expect he will copy my stereo
> Thorton Pickard shutter I use on my 5x7 stereo Korona, which I made by
> modifying a single shutter for stereo use. The images are full 4x5 fomat,
> with each image slighly under 2 1/2" x 4". He also has two septums made
> from old slides from film holders, which slide into grooves on the camera
> back.
>
> I will post any new pictures in the New Year. BTW, have a good one guys
> (there's still 3 1/2 hours left here of 1999). May this list and interest
> in stereo last at least to the 4th millenium!
>
> Sam

Another advantage of 4x5 is that with a Polaroid holder you can produce instant
stereo prints (snip apart and transpose if taken with a sliding lens board, or
view directly if taken via a beamsplitter).  Polaroid has a number of "passport
photo" cameras that take two pictures simultaneously.  This looked like a neat
way to produce instant stereo portraits until you realize that the print has to
be cut in half and left-right swapped, reducing the "neatness" factor
considerably.

Richard Rylander