Re: miscellany

[P3D <VMMARYANN@xxxxxxx>]

In a message dated 96-04-03 23:34:46 EST, you write:

> I remember a post about an attachment for the Realist to hold an
>ID card in front of one of the lenses to fill in the blank frame at the
>beginning of a roll.  Is there something in the placement of the lenses or
>the way the film advances that would keep one from jerry-rigging a similar
>attachment for holding a stereopair (Twin-rig, Realist, 7 perf, etc.) in
>front of the lenses of a VM camera?  Just curious & looking for an excuse
>to justify the expense of acquiring one for the collection of stereocameras
>that I use....

Nothing is impossible, but I feel that this would involve a major camera
conversion.
Not only would special additional lens elements be needed to achieve focus
but the problem of alignment would be a major one, since View-Master personal
reels do not permit adjustment. It would be great to have a camera to do
this.

One of the View-Master engineers (Stereocraft) was planing to make a camera
to copy VM reels, so yes with a lot of work it could be done.

Wolfgang Sell



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