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

["John A. Rupkalvis" <stereoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is another thought if you happen to have a scanner and an inkjet
printer:  Blacken one of the blank V-M reels (spray paint, whatever).   Copy
it on the scanner.  Print the result on transparency film.  Tape the chips
to the clear "windows".  Tape or glue another clear sheet on the other side.
Cut out the circle on the outside.

If you put some masking tape over the label areas before you spray paint the
original blank reel, and then remove the tape before scanning, you will have
a clear area for writing in labels.  For a real neat result, these can be
generated with "MS word", printed on adhesive label material, and applied
"in-between"
before the final "sandwich" is sealed.

A similar technique can be used for generating special shaped slide masks
for inserting in your regular Realist-or-other mounts as well.  You know,
heart shape for Valentines, star or tree for Christmas, special close-up
masks, widescreen masks, etc.

JR

----- Original Message -----
From: <Project3D@xxxxxxx>
To: <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [photo-3d] Re: Mounting Viewmaster reels


> 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
>
>
>
>