P3D Argus C-3 Stereo

["H a r o l d B a i z e" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well it is 99% finished.

My Argus C-3 Stereo. Took a lot of time and effort.
Much thanks to Michael Watters for encouragement and 
important information.

It is a hack of two (well actually four) Argus C-3 
bricks. My version of the stereo hack is full frame 
with a 68mm lens separation. One feature that I love 
is that the viewfinders are almost exactly set at 
my eye separation, so I can view through them both 
for stereoscopic viewfinding.

For those of you who are not familiar with the 
Argus C-3 it is a very simple but well made 
35mm range finder camera with a fairly good 
50mm lens. They were made from 1939 
through the fifties and are the "Volkswagen"
of 35mm cameras.

My stereo Argus C-3 camera has linked shutters 
and shutter speed, but everything else is independent. 
The advance is "1-3-1" as in European format stereo 
cameras, but this is accomplished by user memory 
rather than internal mechanism-- I hope I don't 
produce too many double exposures : ) .

I'm part way through the first roll of film. Could 
be that it doesn't work well at all. I hope to get 
the film processed quickly (its an E-6 roll) so I 
can report and show to the Oakland Camera Club on 
Tuesday. 

Harolddd.


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