VM Viewers for full-frame 2x2 slides?

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>When you see the system you will wonder "why didn't I think of that?" and
>>some of us will try and adapt the viewer/cartridges for other purposes,
>>like viewing our own full-frame slides, etc.

>I might be missing something here but is it really that hard to view full
>frame slides with viewers? I have converted my viewmaster toy to view full
>frame slides years ago....

>I took out the whole part of the front of the viewmaster and mechanism inside
>and adapted it to hold the large cardboard mount. In front of that I have the
>viewmaster diffuser. It works very well. You can view both slides fully in the
>viewer and the quality of the slide and 3d effect is very good.

Excuse my skepticism, but I don't see how lenses that were selected to
cover the VM 12 mm x 12 mm image size will work well for 24 mm x 36 mm
full-frame slides, when much larger lenses used in Realist format viewers
will not do it.

Perhaps our definition of "works well" is the problem here?

George Themelis


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