[MF3D.FORUM:332] Re: Cheap Sputniks

[David Kazdan <dxk10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe.  I've had the thing for a few years now, and the only stereos I've taken that were
more impressive were 4x5 transparencies of a tabletop still-life.  I learned photography on
a 1948 Kodak Reflex, a 6x6 TLR that makes the Sputnik look like fine equipment, so maybe
clumsy cameras don't bother me as much as they do some.

As I have mentioned here before, I may have a good Sputnik specimen; one lens has a little
coma, but they're really not bad on the whole.  The viewer lenses are bad, no question, but
the pics are still great fun.  I've also done B&W and color Holmes cards from Sputnik
pictures; they view well.

I'm sorry you don't like the thing--I do!

        David

Eric Goldstein wrote:

> David Kazdan wrote:
>
> > That's what I use in my Sputnik.  I use the original viewer over a light table for the
> > transparencies, and they're spectacular.
>
> Hi Dave-
>
> Hold that thought... With the passage of time, the "wow" factor of MF
> fades and the shortcomings of the camera and viewer loom larger and
> larger... Try to always remember when love was new!
>
> Eric G.