Re: Large format stuff

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:29 PM -0700 6/3/97, P3D Michael Nankin wrote:
>Thanks to John B for the wisdom of the camera shift. For viewing, I was
>thinking about building a Wheatstone-inspired rig to view two backlit
>8x10 transparancies. There's this guy in Germany who makes a viewer
>called Realision that I read about in 3d Magazin. It was constructed of
>Plexiglas or Lucite and was built to view prints but I think
>transparancies would be mind-blowing. Has anyone out there ever done
>anything like this? Am I crazy? Should I just shoot a couple of rolls
>with my Realist and forget about it?
>
>MN

There is (or was fairly recently) a viewer out there for prints of at least
that size.  I can't remember the name of the fellow associated with it, but
he's the one who keeps winning slide circuits with gorgeous scenics; I'm
sure someone out there can tell me who I'm talking about.  Lives in
Sacramento, I think.

Anyway, I saw & used the viewer at an exhibition in Berkeley a year or two
ago.  It consisted of a box about 8" high by a couple of feet wide; you
held it by a handle at each end.  Two sets of front-silvered mirrors
shifted the viewpoints out by several inches.  With a stand & an attachment
for holding the transparencies it should work.  Plus a stand, it was fairly
heavy.  I don't remember how much it cost, just that it was well over $100.

Oh, I remember: David Lee.

-Jim C.

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