[photo-3d] Re: Medium Format Viewers (again!)

[Dylan the Hippy Wabbit <dylan.wabbit@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

In reply to my questions about medium format viewers Robert Thorpe wrote:

>Have you visited my Medium Format Viewer Gallery? It's located at:
>
>     http://www.skep.com/3D/gallery.htm
>
>When you get there, you may want to back out a level to:
>
>     http://www.skep.com/3D/
>
>I have a couple of other pages that review the lenses I used in
>my second viewer and plan for lens mounting rings, plus other
>items of general 3d interest.

Thanks for the reminder.  I'd seen your site, but not since medium format
became a real possibility for me.  It gave me some good pointers, and I see
now that positioning the slide will be easy.  For me though the most
critical part, mounting the lens accurately, is probably still best
deferred.  I've still got scars from my aeromodelling days, and few of the
results ever flew!  That gives you an idea of my limited competance.  ;-)

Brian Reynolds wrote:

>John Billingham has made a nice inexpensive viewer with a pair of
>Horizon loupes.  These are probably the Russian ones you mention.
>They're not great quality, but they're cheap.

That could be a show stopper on this loupe then.  The one I saw looked
fine, but then I'm new to medium format so it would seem great.  Come to
think of it, the only slides I've seen in about 20 years were in a (not so)
Pinsharp viewer.  I don't want to find myself dissatisfied with the result,
and having to start again.  Perhaps the expensive loupes are the way to go.

>He cut down one edge of each loupe (they have ridges all the way
>around the base) so that they could be positioned closer to each
>other.

I'd wondered about that, but I was expecting to move them apart rather than
closer.  I've obviously still got some print based ideas to unlearn.

>For lighting he used an inexpensive battery operated
>florescent tube that he attached to the loupes with some plexiglass
>triangles.

How does the colour look with those?  Flourescent lamps don't have a full
spectrum, as you probably know.

Thanks again folks.

 

Dave Spacey

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