Viewing large stereo pairs

[P3D Jamie Drouin <jdrouin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:
>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.

        I was looking at his viewers in Rochester.  They are very
impressive with views around 11x14"(per image), but I found the
Side-by-Side ViewMagic just as good for images 8x10", not to mention almost
1/3 the price and extremely compact.

        Another option is the fresnel lorgnette made by Dr.Smekel in
Vancouver.  They work for pairs up to poster size (he showed me one where
each image was almost 20x30"), although probably not as critically sharp as
David's mirror viewer.  I believe Smekel's viewers are around $20US.

                                                       :-)jamie.

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