[MF3D.FORUM:1659] Re: List intros request

["Don Lopp" <dlopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure beats a life of crime-The police found my car with viewer  some of my
slides -not my Rolleidoscope but my friend  Ray Smullian in New york is
sending me his Heidoscope.DON
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam" <3dhacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Medium Format 3D Photography" <MF3D.Forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:58 PM
Subject: [MF3D.FORUM:1654] List intros request


> Ok, I'll give it a go.
>
> My first dip into medium format stereo was when my parents bought a
> subscription to Popular Photography in an effort to steer me away from a
> life of crime. Around 1974 there was an article about stereo photography,
> and this inspired me so much I stole a stereo map reader from high school
> and made my own stereo cards using a Polaroid Colorpak 80 in Cha Cha mode.
> My sister was an antique dealer, and that got me into collecting cameras
> and stereo cards. Anybody remember that pile of Nimslos stacked to the
roof
> at Olden Camera in 1986? At $20 a shot it was enough to start me into
> simultaneous stereo. By 1988 I had a 5x7 Korona stereo camera.
>
>  After aquiring a Realist in 1989 I still felt something was missing. Not
> finding anything available I built my first MF stereo camera that spring
by
> merging two folding MF Ziess Nettars into one. I used Gepe Glass mounts in
> a mirrored viewer I made. A friend managed to get me a Sputnik out of
> Russia for $100 when they were selling for $750. That lasted a month. I
> picked up an old Ontoscope in Vietnam in 1992, but still wasn't happy with
> the quality. By 1997 I thought I'd make one more crack at building a
decent
> MF stereo camera, and made the Stereo Pro. Many hours of improvements are
> still going into it, but after 4 years it's still my prime stereo camera.
> Although I own a Verascope f40, a Belplasca and at least a dozen other
> stereo cameras, most of them never see the light of day anymore. MF stereo
> rules.
>
> I still make and modify stereo cameras for my own amusement, but these
days
> I concentrate more on shooting, mostly nature shots in the Canadian
> Rockies. I also attempt to keep active in the folios, and am always trying
> to turn others away from crime and into MF3d!
>
> Sam
>
>