Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/22

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Subject: Re: Stereo "M6"
From: spaniel <spaniel@pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 19:19:24 -0700

Re your stereo viewer equipment question below, almost everything one
could want in stereo-related items is available at the following WEB
address for Reel 3-D Enterprises in Culver City, California, run by a
very personable married couple from whom I have ordered multiple items
previously:

http://www.3d-web.com/reel/reel3d.html





Leikon35@aol.com wrote:
> 
>  All of the many stereo gadjets that Leitz has made in the past, have been
>  discontinued for many years ie: STEREOLY, STEMAR, FIATE (slide-bar)
>  and thus very expensive collector items....But it is still possible, and has
> 
>  been done, to mount 2 cameras in tandem or one camera with a slide bar
>  moving 3 inches (axial pupil distance).  Of course you are limited to still
>  lifes since you will be taking 2 seperate slides seperated by the approx
>  distance between an average persons eyes.
> 
>  This part is NO PROBLEM - the problem is that you will have 2 full frame
>  chromes and how do you view them ( are there any stereo viewers that can
>  utilize 2 full frames?)  The late Les Hobbs commissioned Larry Wyatt to
>  make him a "DOPPEL" from 2 Mod I(A) bodies with 2 - 50/3.5 Elmars.
>  It was a copy of Barnack's "DOPPEL"  but used 2 fulll frames instead of
>  half frames & the 1st pic used frames #1 & #3 then 2 winds of the camera
>  and next pic on frames #2 & #4.
> 
>  The last I heard was that Les's son had the camera for sale for only $7000.
> 
>     Cheers +++ Marvin Moss
>