P3D View-Magic thanks

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Thanks to Allen French, Mark Dottle, Steve Berezin, Paul Talbot,
George Themelis, Gabriel Jacob, and all others who responded to
my question about viewers for pairs of 4X6 prints from the FED.
It was quite an interesting thread!  :-)

I have the View-Magic PV-4000 and am very pleased with it--it
is exactly what I was looking for. I think the FED and the
PV-4000 make a very nice combination for print shooting.
These print pairs are a by-product of my yearbook work.

My main inteerest does remain with Kodachrome slides, however.
I do have a line on filters and adapters for the FED and plan
to try some Kodachrome. After looking at a couple of hundred
of my flat slides the other night I doubt this is the way I'll
go for most of my work, but it could be interesting. I did shoot
an awful lot of verticals. This would mean vertically twinned SLR's.
The beamsplitter/Nimslo combination gives me this with a lot less
weight, and allows a reduced stereobase for closeups. A FED BOY
and a pair of Olympus OM-10's wouldl cover everything except
closeups, but I wouldn't want to have both of them around my
neck for very long!  :-)

As for the so-called (by some people) "tall, skinny" beamsplitter
format, it is actually less skinny than a vertical 24X36mm image.
The better proportioning of 18X24mm was one of the big selling points
of half-frame at the peak of its popularity. The Nimslo is even
less skinny with its height reduction for the red LED.

Mark Shields

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