P3D Re: Print Viewer

[Bill Davis <bd3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Dottle wrote:
>Is there an over/under print viewer similar to Vue-magic ( using 4x6
>prints) that offers some magnification?  Can lenses like reading glasses
>or other be added to the Vue-magic? Thanks

Steve Berezin replied:
>At NSA somebody gave a workshop where they put a 2x magnification
>reading glasses on a viewmagic.  It worked well.  They also added a
>portable light.  I don't remember who it was but Gabriel was there,
>maybe he can fill in the gaps.

Gabriel said:
>Yea, that was the incomparable Bill Davis! Most any power reading
>glasses will work. Although the higher power ones will limit you
>to narrower widths, the magnification makes up for it and works
>great IMO.

Incomparable?  *Incompetent* is more like it.

A 1992 or 1993 letter to Stereo World had suggested wearing reading glasses 
with the View-Magic viewer to compensate for the longer viewing path due to 
mirrors. I popped the lenses out of a cheap ($2) pair of 2X reading glasses 
and cemented them over the viewing ports of the View Magic.  Works well, 
indeed.  Also helps keep dust off the (front surface) mirrors.

The light attachment is a conversion of "The Itty Bitty Book Light" or some 
such name.  The light works well to supplement room lighting, which is 
sometimes occluded by the viewer itself.  A bigger benefit than the 
lighting IMO,  is the *handle* that the light provides.  The View Magic is 
not intuitively easy to pick up, and those unfamiliar with it often wrap 
their greasy fingers around it wherever is convenient, smudging those FS 
mirrors.  The handle eliminates these mistakes.

I will be showing this, plus the rest of the junk from my NSA 98 "Stereo on 
a Shoestring" workshop plus some gadgets I've assembled since then 
(Including a convenient heat sealer setup) at the December 7 meeting of the 
new stereo group here in the Webster NY area. This meeting's topic is "Do 
It Yourself", and we expect to have quite a variety of home-built or 
modified stereo photography equipment.

I'll post meeting details later today.


Best regards,
Bill Davis



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