Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/05

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Subject: Re: Leica & stereo
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 22:13:17 -0500

At 01:25 PM 05-01-97 -0800, Matthew wrote:
>My father owns an M3 and has become a 3D nut. He uses the Stemar 33mm
>f/3.5 stereo system with Prism.  It is really an amzing system. I have
>seen most of his images and am knocked out by the sharpness and effect.
>He uses very fine grain Kodak color reversal, which helps, the colors
>are amazing.  The Stemar system was introduced in 1954 and I believe
>were mostly built in Canada. The system included the 33mm Lens, Prism
>and Lens hood. To view the images, the Stemar Viewer is used, code named
>Ohteo, or projection is achieved with stereo projection lenses. We
>project with a Prado 500 and Twin Lens Elmar 50mm f/3.5.
>
>The format is unbeatable but unfortunately, like most quality Leica
>equipment, it is very collectible, and the price very high.

Someone was advertising a Stemar with hood prism and viewfinder on one of
the rec.photo groups.  He was asking $7900 for it.

Dan C.