P3D Re: 3D Magic questions

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Tony Shapps wrote:

> Ref: "3D MAGIC" one trip camera....they don't like to call it
> 'disposable' anymore since they recycle most of it.

The politically correct school also like to call it single-use
and I've heard in Japan they call it, "Film with Lens". Now
that is what I call imaginative! ;-)

Brian Reynolds wrote:

>It seems a shame to send the camera back and
>have to buy another one to take any more pictures.  Except for the
>fact that it is probably very profitable (since the camera will most
>likely be resold) I can't see why 3D Image Tech doesn't just sell the
>3D Magic as a low cost reuseable camera.  Of course it might cut into
>sales of their 3D Wizard cameras.

They do have a reuseable version of the single use 3D Wizard. You
can see it at, http://www.3dit.com/html/3dfx.html
Rocky Mountain used to sell it, but I don't see it anymore on the
site at,
http://www.frii.com/~rkymtmem/cameras/image.tech/image.tech.html
They do carry a more expensive but better version of the single-use
one. 

>Has anyone opened one of these cameras?  Does the film wind into the
>cassette, or does the film have to be unloaded in the dark and rewound
>into the cassette?  Has anyone gotten a local photo processor to
>develop the film from one of these cameras and return the camera with
>the negatives?

Yes, I have opened and re-used them. The details are sketchy since
its been awhile since I've done this but I posted my trials and
tribulations in digest#1631. You can read it by searching the P3D
archives at, (Subject: SUC or Single-Use Cameras)
http://calcite.rocky.edu/photo-3d/ghindex.html
Note, some of the links in the post might be outdated.

The film does wind into the cassette. Actually I haven't run into
any single-use cameras that don't. The reason is it makes more
sense to do it this way for the film processor getting at the film.

P.S. Now how about a single-use beam-splitter camera! Check my 
next post.

Single-use cameras are not one night stands! ;-)

Gabriel


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