P3D Viewmaster format philosophy

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Mark Shields wrote:


But how about you Viewmaster people out there? Your format
is smaller than 18X24mm, and I don't think there are any
Realist-format mounts for Viewmaster film chips (watch someone
tell me there are!). I know that the Viewmaster format is
famous and time-honored, and I personally find it fascinating--
the reels with their circle of cutouts. (I also used to shoot
a lot of Kodachrome in Minolta-16 (10X14mm) and 110 formats--
Viewmaster is very close to that.)

So what do you like about the Viewmaster format? 

SNIPPED

 What keeps you shooting Viewmaster
when you could be standing on the same spot, taking the same
picture with a Realist, Kodak, Belplasca, etc.?>>

To answer the last bit first: "what keeps me shooting ViewMaster when I could 
be taking the same picture with a Realist, Kodak, Belplasca, etc.?"

I usually stand at the same spot and shoot with my Belplasca etc as well! 

The attraction of the ViewMaster is that I can make triplicate shots of 
everything. Then I can make up spare reels to give away...

With regards to Realist style mounts for my ViewMaster chips, why would I 
want them? The whole point of the ViewMaster reel is that I can make each one 
a "mini-sequence" with a set theme. E.g. I have done reels on a number of 
Ancient Egyptian temples. To put the individual pairs into Realist style 
mounts would completely go against the raison d'etre of the format...

Bob Aldridge


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