P3D Loreo (now ARGUS?) with TWO lenses?

[Michael Georgoff <Michael_Georgoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BobH said "Actually the very clever Loreo (now ARGUS?) with TWO lenses is a
box camera version of the expensive Leitz Steomar system of two lenses and
mirrors to widen the base. "

Is the stock, standard model (for example, as sold by Dalia Miller as the
Argus, http://www.3dstereo.com/f-cameras.html)?  Or, do the Loreo/Argus
cameras all have two lenses?

Has anyone out there ever tried to improve one of these Loreo/Argus models
with better mirrors (glass front surface mirrors) and/or better lenses?

Curious again,

Michael Georgoff
San Jose, CA

(By the way, when searching for Dalia, I came across an article with a
picture of her at http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/features/viewmaster.html)

(And, since everyone else is confessing, I am vintage 1954, and I too, have
Viewmaster to thank.  I loved it as a kid, but didn't "stick with it"... I
was all very neat, but I didn't think it outstanding, I felt it was natural.
It was no more outstanding to me at that time than CD-ROMs or the Web are to
my 9 year old son.  I guess I forgot about stereo for a while until I just
kinda wandered back in to it when the Internet consisted of USENET, TELNET,
FTP, Archie, Gopher, WAIS and all that.  Back when only (primarily) manly
men would brave the command line interface and wrangle endless format and
compression utilities and we'd talk back to our modems with AT command sets.
Where was I?  Ah, yes.  Back when USENET 3D chatter brought me to various
sites where I'd FTP GET incredible images like Balletdancer by Bob Mannle,
and I'd find pairs that I'd build anaglyphs from in Photoshop.  Then one day
my Dad gave me a "goofy" camera that someone had given him.  It was (and
still is) a Nishika.  The lents were neat, but non-incredible.  Then I shot
print film, and armed with scissors, glue, and old cardboard, along with a
flimsy black plastic viewer, I was in business.  I did slide film and
mounted a few pairs. Hell, I even mounted my print negs in slide mounts just
for grins. Now, I've got a Realist 3.5.  I'm still a relative "newbie" to
the art and science of stereo photography, but I've been tracking P3D on the
internet and now Web for many years.)


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