P3D Re: Viewer help

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

David W. Kesner writes,
>Someone I work with brought in an old viewer they found in an attic 
>and thought was for 3D slides. I would appreciate any and all info.
>
>It is called a Tower Pan Ram Slide Viewer (No. 6385) and is made or 
>sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Simpson-Sears Limited. 
>
>It claims "gives life-like 3-D appearance to individual 35mm 
>or 828 slides"; "automatically enlarges pictures 4 times with 
>brilliance and clarity 
>
>You place a slide flat on the top of the viewer and it projects 
>through a convex lens on to the back of a two-way mirror at a 45 
>degree angle on to a concave front-surface? mirror. You look through 
>the 45 degree two-way mirror to the image on the concave mirror.

I don't have much info on it other than to say the viewer you
describe sounds alot like the one I bought from Sam the Hacker
awhile back. It was a Haminex viewer but didn't use batteries
but rather is a steal the light type viewer.

>Definitely not 3-D, but it does give a strange new "dimension" to the 
>slide.

Agreed. What I liked about it though was that it worked much better
than my GAF 2x2 slide viewer with big and thick plastic lens.

Gabriel


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