Re: [photo-3d] Sputnik Medium Format Cameras - What is your opinion?

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Davis wrote:
> All this talk of Sputniks has got me curious.  How do you view these 
> humongous transparencies?
> 

With a hand held viewer.  You can see a wide variety of them at Robert
Thorpe's Medium Format 3D Viewer Gallery.
<URL:http://www.skep.com/3D/gallery.htm>

Besides all the home made viewers there are a few commercial viewers.
The plastic viewer someone else mentioned is the King Inn.  This is
the viewer that the common mount format is based on.  The Sputnik
originally came with a contact printer and a viewer for making small
stereo cards.  The 6x6 format is significantly smaller than Holmes
cards.  There is also a Zeiss Jena viewer in the gallery.

Besides these viewers, I started with a fold up viewer I got from
American Science & Surplus with a set of wire frame mathematical
cards similar to the viewer found in "The Civil War in Depth".  I was
absolutely amazed at the difference the first time I viewed some of my
slides with the Alan Lewis Saturn viewer.

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