Re: Teco 3D viewer

[P3D Morris M. Keesan <keesan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Davis asks:
>Is it possible to just modify an existing viewer to do this?  Has anyone 
>tried?  If the spacing of frames on the processed film is correct, would it 
>be possible to just saw a slot in a red button or Kodaslide to allow viewing 
>of uncut film?  Granted feeding the film through would be a pain, but perhaps 
>that could be rigged somehow also.

The spacing of frames isn't correct, and besides that the frames are transposed
on uncut film.  The Teco 3-Viewer not only puts a loop in the film path to
bring two matching frames together, it also uses an arrangement of mirrors to
reverse the pseudoscopic viewing that would otherwise occur.  The viewer is,
in fact, a modified existing viewer (Star-D), but the modification is the
replacement of the entire top section of the viewer.  To me, it hardly seems
worth doing this to a better-quality viewer like a red-button.  If you care
enough about viewing the images with better optics, you ought to care enough
to want to mount the slides with the proper stereo window, in my opinion.

--Morris Keesan
keesan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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