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P3D Christmas gift stereoscope


  • From: "Gerald Belton" <gbelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Christmas gift stereoscope
  • Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 15:41:27 +0000

My wife got the hint.

My Christmas present from her was a Holmes-style stereo viewer in kit 
from from Reel 3D.  I originally planned to spend a lot of time with 
sandpaper and varnish and build a finely finished heirloom.

But the desire to see 3d got the better of me.  I ended up just 
putting a couple of coats of paste wax on the un-sanded wood and 
assembling it.  It doesn't look bad, and it works great.

My only complaint is that I don't have enough images to look at.  
There is a printed sheet with four stereo cards reproduced on it that 
came with the viewer.  I pasted it to some posterboard and cut them 
out so I could try out the viewer.  The images are interesting, but 
the printing process used isn't very good.  The dots from the 
halftone screen are very visible under the slight magnification 
provided by the viewer.

I expect to spend many happy hours lurking in flea markets and 
antique stores looking for stereo cards.  But I want to look at 
stereo NOW, darn it.  

Where can I get images to use in my viewer?

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Gerald Belton Photography
gbelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/~gbelton


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