Re: [photo-3d] LEEP camera

["Don Lopp" <dlopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Lippert has a LEEP camera
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> In a message dated 09/12/00 15:42:46 GMT Standard Time, Ralph
Johnston/Linda
> Sherman (copley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> << I believe that Ed Shaw is currently holding Paul Wing's LEEP camera.
He
>  was able to repair it so it takes photos again.>>
>
> Actually, _I_ repaired Paul's camera, and Ed Shaw and I used the camera
> across Europe and at the ISU congress in Lindau...
>
> << I have looked at the slides a number of times in the LEEP viewer and am
> always awestruck by the immersion.  You can't turn your eyes away from the
> image, it is that large and close to you.  Don't try to look at the slides
> with another viewer,
>  they look highly distorted at the edges.  They are not even rectangular.
>  This is corrected by the viewer optics.>>
>
> Well, I too have examined a number of LEEP images, but I have short-sight
and
> my glasses get in the way of using the viewer properly, and the viewer
> doesn't quite have enough accommodation for me... I'd say that image
quality
> is _almost_ acceptable...
>
> << Neither Ed or Paul are photo-3d members, but you can contact Ed at
>  ebshaw@xxxxxxx  Paul doesn't do e-mail. >>
>
> I'm not sure if that e-mail address still works for Ed, now he's retired.
> Paul has an account on AOL (I think - it might be Compuserve!) I _think_
it's
> Wing3D@xxxxxxxx
>
> << I heard a rumor that some spare parts were obtained from the principals
>  which might be enough to make one or more cameras.>>
>
> I think that's just a rumour... Though I know of one little cache of parts
> amounting to one "almost-camera" with non-working electronics. :-(
>
> As far as I can tell, there is Paul's camera and one in Hawaii that has
> worked at one time. Don't know the exact location or if it's still
working.
> Then there's the non-working camera. That makes three. The total possible
> production is thought to be seven...
>
> So don't even _think_ of trying to buy one of these babies! Rare as hen's
> teeth.
>
> For what it's worth, Werner Weiser produced a very useful book giving
three
> views of the stereo cameras produced in the post war period, together with
> the demographics for the cameras. The second edition has the LEEP listed,
> based on information and pictures from Paul Wing.
>
> In Leiden, at the ISU congress, I took a picture of a group of British
> Stereoscopic Society committee members, and instantly was approached by Dr
> Weiser (who must have sprinted several hundred yards to get there so
> quickly!) with the words "I am a collectoa, and I have never seen one of
> those!"
>
> Bob Aldridge
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