Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >