[photo-3d] Schaap Systeem Groothoek Stereoscoop Camera van Albada

[abram.klooswyk@xxxxxx]

In a thread on  Wide-angle Stereoscopy and the LEEP I have 
written on the Dutch army General van Albada, who probably 
has devoted more time to stereoscopy than to the army, and 
I said (Feb 18, 2001): 
>In the Netherlands in 1902 a camera was marketed called 
>"Groothoekstereoscoop-camera" (groothoek = wide angle), 
>but without a wide-angle stereoscope (I don't know if 
>any copy of it survives). 

In fact it is more than twenty years ago that I have seen the 
first and  only one I ever have seen. But recently one has 
been sold on eBay for $800 (one bid only), the picture is still 
online at this moment:

<http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&ite
m=1227731606>

The description says: 
"Plates show Systeem Groothoek Stereoscoop Camera v. Albada 
and W. H. Brandsma Spui 8  Amsterdam". 

Manufacturers were Schaap and Co., Brandsma is the shop who 
sold it (Spui is the Amsterdam address, it is also the place 
where in the 1960s "happenings" were held by the Provo's who 
effectively provocated the police to the point where they 
arrested Provo's who distributed raisins to passing people, 
an hilarious epoch - but I'm getting of topic...).

As discussed before, a wide-angle stereosystem depends more 
on the availability of wide-angle stereoscopes than on 
wide-angle cameras.

Abram Klooswyk


 

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