My new TDC 116

[P3D Tom White <tomwhite@xxxxxxx>]

First, let me thank all the members of this list that fed me information and
advice. I truly appreciate it.

I found a TDC 116 for sale from a Usenet posting by Neville Summercorn back
in February. On a chance, I emailed him to see if it was still available. It
was and it turned out that he was in San Antonio, only 55 miles from me. I
could conveniently drive down and take a look at it.

Neville has a antique store that specializes in antique glass and cameras.
It is located on a street that I drive down frequently
but I had never noticed the shop as it is small and not well signed. For
the record, it is:

Nemo Antiques
4215 McCullough
San Antionio, TX
210-820-0933
nemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

He is quite a gentleman and has a wonderful display of antique cameras. His
prices are antique store prices but fair, I would say. He had a Realist that
appeared to be in excellent condition with ordinary lenses for $200, for
example. He also had a stereo camera called a Graphlex, I believe, that had
fixed aperture and few speed settings. It looked clean and he was asking
$95 for it. I don't know anything about that one. He also had an array of
viewers, one with old nudies taken by an individual. He doesn't specialize
in stereo, he just had a few things.

And one of the things was the TDC 116. It was in excellent condition. 5 inch
lenses. The optics were all very clean and clear. And yes, the rubber on the
electric cord was supple and uncracked. The case was, as he had told me,
"tatty." Kind of beat up but quite servicable. But it also had 2 spare lamps
plus 4 pairs of viewing glasses! That's worth about $40 I figure. The price
was $300 (including the sales tax which he said he would absorb). I got to
examine it in advance and I didn't have to pay for shipping and handling. No
queezies about whether or not it was going to be the right thing.

That evening, I subjected my wife, daughter and grandkids to an
impromptu slide show. I basically pulled out about 2 dozen of my favorites
that I wanted to see projected and WOW!, was I pleased. I'm going to look at
some more this evening.

I can already see that mounting for projection and for viewing in a viewer
is different. A couple of ones that were difficult to get to work in my
viewers didn't project well at all.

For the record, I am using a 48 inch wide silver lenticular screen and my
living area allows me a comfortable 15 foot projection path. The 5 inch
lenses are just right.

So anyway, I am very pleased. Again I wish to thank the List for all of the
support and encouragment. Its not easy to find some of this stuff out.

Tom White
Driftwood, Texas





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