Folks, you must remember the classic Viewmaster (Fisher Price I think), see here for a reminder:

http://resumbrae.com/ub/dms438_f03/Stereo/viewmaster.jpg

So, how easy would it be to transfer L & R stereo pair imagery from the MER onto transparencies? Example :
http://www.postcardsmuseum.com/images/view...fthewinds00.jpg

I for one would buy a set of those, (for me and my 7yo boy).

Any thoughts?

Brian

GENIUS

We've got one at home.

I wonder if you could make a dial? I could get some b'n'w stuff photocopied onto transparancies and then cut it out to fit.

Doug

I thought for sure you were referring to a slide I had for Viewmaster as a kid. Rather, a couple or so Viewmaster disks of space stuff, but the images I remember best are a stero view of the martian globe, using Mariner 69 imagery (Viking was right around the time I got this stuff) and an extreme closeup of the
Moon's surface next to an Apollo astronaut's boot.

Really, VM was a good technology for its niche...

The problem with Viewmaster is, of course, the peculiar packaging. I've never heard of anywhere to get the transparancies popped onto the carrier card commercially, though you could possibly find somewhere via a Google search. Creating the stereo pairs (very small, remember?) would be a fiddly job at best, not to mention the difficulty in simply properly photographing the original images. There *were* a few domestic Viewmaster cameras at one point (late 1940s to 1960s) and even some 3-D projectors (they used polarised glasses). eBay prices for the cameras are about $200, projector $350, cardboard carriers about $50 for 20. Collectors love 3-D, sadly, especially the proper GAF or Sawyers Bakelite models!

What would be no problem at all would be more conventional 3-D using two images and a viewer - Pentax make a nice little folding table-top one (model no 0-3Dv1) which was supplied with their Optio 330RS digicam at one point (it took 3-D pictures). 3-D doesn't work for everyone, and there are different variations on a theme, too, some of which don't need a viewer but do need the knack of selectively crossing your eyes!

And anaglyphs can be made with freeware and just need those red/green glasses...

Both conventional 3-D and anaglyphs would be entirely feasible and could be printed out cheaply at your local camera shop (once you explain to them what you're doing, so that the folk at the photolab don't have fits!).

The slides in a viewmaster disk are very small arnt they? You could probably squish two, or maybe 4 onto a 35mm transparancy - and you can have those printed quite cheaply.

I was thinking of fashioning something myself to drop into the one we have.

Thinking about it - I believe I have a relative who is in Surveying who has, tucked in his shed somewhere, the stereo viewing sort of hardware they used to use with aerial photographs. I may give him a bell

Doug

Doug, don't spend too long on it or else........... http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00...eri_186080m.jpg

http://www.studio3d.com/pages/viewmaster.htm

There appear to be two sorts - Classic paper 3D reels and Modern IMAGE3D® film reels


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Classic paper View-Master reel. Turnaround time 1-2 weeks. Set-up fee $195.00.

One $48.00
2+ $32.00 ea
6+ $25.00 ea
12+ $21.00 ea
36+ $18.50 ea
72+ $16.75 ea

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Modern IMAGE3D® film reel. For orders OVER 100 reels - turnaround time 3-5 weeks, 5 weeks is cheaper for large quantities. Set-up fee $395.00.

3 wks
100+ $8.62 ea
250+ $7.91 ea
500+ $7.28 ea
1000+ $5.27 ea
2000+ $4.85 ea
5000+ -


5 wks
100+ -
250+ -
500+ $5.93 ea
1000+ $4.15 ea
2000+ $3.86 ea
5000+ $3.69 ea

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http://www.stereoscopy.com/3d-images/index.html

These guys do lenticular (no glasses) prints - though I suspect it's an expensive process!

And you can by a Pentax 0-3Dv1 viewer for 9.90 Euros here:

http://digitaleyes.de/store/item.php?b=619&c=12&i=7813

This looks by far the cheapest option!