Re: Wanted: Equip and Info

[P3D sid herbage <sidh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

P3D Nancy Castro wrote:

> 2)  Another friend (a poor starving graduate student) recently bought a
> ViewMaster camera and has done what appear to be some nice shots.  But she
> doesn't have a cutter.  Does anyone have a cutter they are interested in selling
> to a poor starving graduate student (i.e. not too expensive)?   She's been
> warned not to attempt cutting by hand, so the film is awaiting a real cutter.

Cutters, of course, are like the proverbial hens teeth. I was in this
position
(VM camera - no cutter) for several years myself so I know the feeling.

For the truly desperate though, it ought to be possible to modify a
couple
of VM viewers to allow pull-through viewing of the uncut roll (sort of
like
a film strip). I presume you'd ned two such viewers to accomodate both
image strips.

The frustrating thing is that the cutter is basically quite a simple
device
(about the same complexity as a paper punch) and if there was a true
devotee
with excellent access to a metal shop, it shouldn't be hard to produce a
workable substitute. The illuminated base for example could be omitted
(use
it on a light box or build-your-own-base). At a pinch, the indexing
mechanism
could be let go too (in the interests of KISS) and the film pulled
through by
hand and aligned byeye .... which *really* makes it no more than a paper
punch.

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    ... Sid (sidh@xxxxxxxxxxxx)


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