P3D Re: trouble setting up Twin SLR.

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> By the way, the Red-Button cannot view 2x2 slide pairs.  You may have been
> led to think so in my thread re. "Realist Flawed."   To view 2x2 pairs in a
> red-Button, you unmount the film, and re-mount in a standard Realist-type
> stereo slide frame.

If I recall correctly, RBT mounts are available in 8-P
sizes, so mounting that way doesn't necessarily mean losing film 
area.

In a related note,  when putzing about in a closet'ed box of lenses 
that came from Tektronix's company store ("country store") in the
olden days ("grab boxes"), I found a pair of Ilex 56mm lenses (f1.9 
I recall) that are very compact.  No iris or the like.  I'd guess it
might have been used in a oscilloscope camera, but don't really
know.  Might not have been production lenses for all I know.

I took off the "head" of my Airequipt Stereo Theatre, and
inserted a slide, with the bar forced to "on".

I then held one of those lenses in each hand in front of
each eye and "tried them out" as viewer lenses (on a 5P
slide which happened to have been in there).

Because it was 56mm, the image size wasn't too huge, but
boy!  SHARP!!!!!!!!   And no rainbows.  :-)

If I can ever find a broken airequipt who's "head" I
can salvage (don't want to "break" mine) to install
these lenses (some hacking required...), seems like it'd 
make a good one for SLR images taken with "normal" lenses.

Anybody else tried something like this?

Mike K.


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