P3D Reusable 3D Magic

[Gecko <gecko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>I just bought a 3D magic plus at Walgreen's tonight. Has anyone
>resued it? I know it says do not open carton, etc.. but I know that
>some people have opened it, taken the filem out and put
>a new roll in. Then they would it onto the spool via somekind of
>hole on the bottom (I haven't taken the cardboard off yet).
>But, I think they just had the film developed and prints made (not
>3D lenticulars). Has anyone had experience sending the film off?
>Will they know that I'm being kinda sneeky? I figured I'd just take the

>film back to Walgreen's and see if they'd have it processed as
>3D lenticulars (if I say it came from a reuseable camera). I wouldn't
be
>lying! I want to reuse it a couple times. They included a little dollar

>off coupon that says Walgreen's is your new 3D photo developer! Not
>respossible for open cameras or exposed film removed. If they don't
>take the roll, then what would be the point of buying a real reusable
>camera? I'd hate to have to send the film to I.T all the time (even if
>that is what Walgreen's will do...I'm acutally unsure of this).
>
>Actually, I'd like to just see how the pictures look. Get a little
>practice making lenticulars. Then, if someone wants to trade my Loreo
>system for a real Imagetech 1000 or Wizard, I'd just start using it.
>Actually, if I really like lenticulars, and no one wants to trade,
>I guess I would wait for QVC to start selling the 3D trio in January.
>
>Anybody know about this processing?

I purchased a 'black film changing bag' for this purpose.  If you're
going to do this, I found out that when you load film into a 'normal'
camera, every time you advance the film, film is pulled out of the
cassette.  At the end of the roll, you rewind the film back into the
cassette.  In a 3D Magic camera, the film is already out of the
cassette, and every time you shoot a picture and advance the film,
you're actually putting the film back into the cassette.  So you need
the 'black bag' to pull the film out of the cassette, roll all the film
onto a little spool, and seal the 3D Magic back up.

I've had great results with this, and have used the same "disposable" 3D
Magic numerous times.
One more thing to think about:  this camera uses plastic lenses so don't
expect professional quality.

One more thing, be sure to take the AA battery out before loading the
film, if you accidently push the flash button while the camera is open,
you may get zapped from the capacitor storing a charge for the flash.

If you have questions on this, email me directly.  It's not a difficult
process to load the camera.

by the way, after I shoot the pictures with the 3D Magic, I take the
film out, take it to a 1 hr photo, and tell them to develop the roll,
not to cut (I do the cutting) and make NO prints.  I decide which
negative to send to Image Tech for processing.

Tom.




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