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stereo camera by Polaroid in '30s


  • From: P3D Peter Abrahams <telscope@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: stereo camera by Polaroid in '30s
  • Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 23:29 PST

A friend who works for Polaroid sent this to me today, do any photo3d'ers
have any information on this?  
" The first-ever Polaroid cameras were made in the late 1930's, ten years
before instant photography, and were a group of 8 stereo cameras using 35mm
film, made
for the early company backers.  I got to play with Dr Land's one when it was
brought into the model shop for repair a number of years ago, and it had
some interesting
features.  The company did some stereo camera development work for Kodak
in the '30's, and it helped pull Polaroid through some lean pre-war
years, according to an old-timer who used to work here."

Yes, I am going to ask what the interesting features were.  
______________________________
Peter Abrahams    telscope@xxxxxxxxxx
  the history of the telescope, the microscope, and the prism binocular


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