P3D Re: Verascope question

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I received this message in response to an earlier posting in photo-3d:

>You wrote:
>
>>The F40 (also known as
>>Busch Verascope because it was imported to the USA by Busch) is the
>>only 35 mm stereo camera I know of, made by Jules Richard.
>
>Yikes! how could you have forgotten the fabulous, fabled, Homeos (accent 
>acute on the "e") mentioned 3 times in Ferwerda, and often considered 
>the first still 35mm camera?  (Although Naylor disagrees and he is 
>probably right)
>
>In one of the old Jules Richard catalogs which I have there are 2 or 3 
>pages of specs and description, of the camera as well as the stereoscope 
>and "electric printing machine" made for the system.  The film was 
>spooled for 27 pairs, 4-p if memory serves, and was available in 
>negative and reversal.
>
>Dick Twichell

Of course, Dick is correct... So Jules Richards made a 35 mm stereo
camera back in 1913!!!  (See Ferwerda's "The World of 3-D" for more
details on this)

I wonder how were the slides mounted for viewing and what kind of 
stereoscopes (viewers) were used.... Anyone knows? 

George


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