P3D Re: Viewmaster Cutter

[Dan Shelley <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Williams wrote:
> 
> I recently found a Viewmaster film cutter in a thrift shop for $1.50.

Drool, drool, drool... Oh, excuse me! ;-) You got quite the bargain
there!! You paid less than 1% of that little piece of equipment's value!
Congrats!

> Would it be worth it to invest in a Viewmaster camera if I could find
> one?  Is it a hassle to mount those little chips?  I grew up on
> Viewmaster reels and love stereo photos.  I acquired a Realist camera a
> year or so ago, and love the images it produces, and I'm experimenting
> with twinning a couple of Nikon F's for full frame work.

I would give it a try. Blank reels are not cheap, but you can get over
a  hundred pair of pics on one roll of slide flm, so it's worth the try.
Worse case, you don't like it, sell the set for more than you have in
it, and move on to the next experiment. Tha's what I did when I found a
set. I have two reels that I like, and kept. The rest of my images were
not worth using... I could have tried a second roll, but... =)

My advice, give it a shot... =)

Dan Shelley
dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dddesign.com/3dbydan


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