[Fwd: Viewer Cheepo]

[Joel Alpers <rkymtmem@xxxxxxxx>]

Tony: I assume this was supposed to go to the rkymtmem-3d list,
not to me personally at rkymtmem@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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• From: "pennywise" <pennywise@[194.72.192.20]>
• Subject: Viewer Cheepo
• Date: Tue, 1 Jan 1980 00:36:15 +0000

I have just obtained the cheapest 35mm stereo viewer ever.
I called into my local photo shop for some sepia toner and lying on 
the counter was a 2X2 slide viewer. Made of plastic with a lens 
(meniscus) at one end and a frosted screen at the other. Naturally, 
the slide is pushed into the slot - held up to the light, and viewed 
- - just like any other old viewer. This one was slightly different 
in as much as the shape it is 55mm wide by 25mm deep and 60mm long.
It occured to me that two of then turned on edge would form a stereo 
viewer if separated by the correct space. I purchased two of them and 
within 1 hour had built a box around them and provided them with 6v
hologen lighting. The card mounts fit perfectly and the lenses, 
although cheap and nasty, don't give ant colour fringing at all. The 
whole thing (without the bulbs and fittings) has cost me less than £5 
($8) and is a really super viewer.
The name on the box isUNOMAT INTERNATIONAL D-100 slide viewer.
Made by: Unomat
D-72766 Reutlingen
Germany.
Believe me, it is well worth investigating. I am going to photograph 
the whole thing - scan it, and try to send it with the email. This is 
something that I have never done before, so if anyone knows the 
procedure for adding a graphic file to the email, let me know the 
secret, please.
Tony (UK)

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