Re: [photo-3d] Re: Mounting Viewmaster reels

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In a message dated 04/02/01 17:50:11 GMT Standard Time, Jeremy Hinton wrote:

<< It is not clear from your email whether you are using the special VM
 film cutter. If not, I think Bob Aldridge wrote something releveant a
 few years ago in the Sterescopic Society Bulletin. Cutters are
 difficult to get hold of, but it may help to get some film from which
 the chips have already been punched. I'm sure any VM shooter could
 help you with that.>>

What I wrote about (all those years ago) was in Stereoscopy and related to 
splitting the reels and taping the individual chips over the apertures in 
exactly the same way that you do for Realist type mounts, but with smaller 
film chips, and seven times per reel. THe chips are then trimmed so that they 
don't cover adjacent apertures and the reel is glued back together. It works 
surprisingly well!

These days I use the template from Charles Barnard which was designed to work 
in Photoshop for assembling digital stereo pairs into a form that - after 
outputting to a film recorder - can then be cut out using the standard 
cutter. 

Co-incidentally,  I have just written up this method for the Stereoscopic 
Society Journal - Jeremy and other members in the UK should get their copies 
tomorrow!

Bob Aldridge
Stereoscopic Society Projectionist