Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1094

[rdi@xxxxxxx]

Way back last year (on Dec 21), bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx  (Bob Howard)
wrote:

>...here are the [circa 1976] trade-in allowances for
>stereo cameras! (THEN!)
>    Busch Verascope F40    $55       Realist f/3.5   $35
>...
>    Kodak stereo               25       Realist f/2.8    45
>The coded selling prices were essential double the above for used!
>This is an indication of how the market valued the different models.

Here's some more info:

I have an article from Modern Photography from April, 1970 titled
"Stereo Ain't Dead?".  It references Olden Camera prices on retail 3D
equipment as of that date.  I presume it is used.  Here they are (read & weep!):

ViewMaster Personal $42.50
TDC Colorist $24.50
Realist 2.8 $49.50   (I'll take two, please :-)  )
Wirgin-Exida $39.50 (this is brand new->they were still being made, so says 
   the article)
Kodak Stereo $36.75

The article also mentions that the Realist Co. still operates a repair
service, and was still making viewers- $21.95 new. 
A Wollansak viewer was $12.75 (used?).
The article mentioned that Sawyers (GAF) still had a 3D camera and
projector available, plus GAF ran a cutting/mounting service.

(I have an Aug. 1952 ad showing a Realist ST63 Handi-Viewer for $9.50;
the Realist camera itself was $178.75, tax included.  A Videon from June,
1952 was $97.48.)

For you entrepreneurs out there, the April, 1970 article also mentioned an obsolete 
"stretched rubber [projection] screen with an aluminized surface".

One other interesting thing of note in the article was a paragraph 
regarding the first men to land on the moon.  It said they "...carried
a stereo camera especially designed by Eastman Kodak to take closeups
of the lunar surface in stereo color... Everything but the
film was left on the moon."  Ah, a future collectible!  :-)  (I say this
because somebody has recently bought some Russian still-on-the-moon stuff 
at auction, in the hopes that in his (or his heirs) lifetime, somebody can 
go back and pick up his property and bring it back, and make millions.)
 
(Hi, Bill Davis!)

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Rick Inzero                                     
Northern Telecom, Inc.                          
Rochester, NY                                   rdi@xxxxxxx
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