Re Lenticular Eagle

[P3D Peter Homer <P.J.Homer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a 10x13 lenticular of ab eagle similar to the one originally
described by Paul Talbot except the bird is clearly just about to land on
the branch .It could be an immature bald eagle lacking the white head and
tail feathers which they dont acquire until about six years old. But I
think more likely it is a golden or one of the other all brown eagles . The
trees are dead branches so it is impossible to say what they are but old
bristlecone pines do have a lot of dead branches on them. I have had it
since the mid to late 60,s so it could not have been taken by any of the
Burder Nimslo derivatives where he slices and splices together as many as
six Nimslo,s to get a 24 lens lenticular camera . I remember a little after
I got my eagle the UK science program "Tomorrows World" showed a small
lenticular by tilting it back and forth of someone sitting on a fence. They
did not show the camera but it was supposed to be that these sort of prints
would soon be able to be taken by the amateur ,nothing came of it . The
only lenticular camera before the Nimslo that was even remotely portable
was the English made Lentic a advert for it from the 1954 British Journal
Photographic Almana is reproduced in Reel 3-D news vol.2 No.6 July 1979
part two. It could be held with two hands with a central handle. It had six
lenses on the same page Reel 3-d also shows a 28 lens camera which they ask
if anyone can tell them what it is. Reel 3-D also feautures the Lentic on
page 9 May-June 1979 vol 11 No 5 . This time on a tripod which is more
likely it used 120 rollfilm with speeds from time to 1/100 aperture f/4.5
to f/22 with a built in rangefinder and level. Many proffesional lenticular
cameras dont use multiple lenses but a scanning arrangment so moving
subjects canot be taken unless you wish to record movement to which is how
the moving lenticulars are made either 2D or 3D . I am convinced that these
large lenticulars are studio shots using bots of branch stuffed birds and
background pictures etc.        P.J.Homer



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