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haha, I had one of these as a child..

very nice

nice collection and nice View-Master style photo

disney - stereo ... Good.

Is it still functional? I'll have to try this next time :D

Thanks, brilliant pic! And the most impressive collection of the Viewmasters!

those Golden days!!!

He lives on my shelf. Never gives me any trouble...

You keep him at home? I presume you let him out occasionally - I saw him in Ender's Game not so long ago...

Daleks were made to be photographed in 3D!

Brilliant :D

Exterminate!

nyce!!

The framing was done in StereoPhoto Maker. It's the "Add Fuzzy Border" option in the "Edit" menu.

how did you create the framing effect?

It works reasonably well. I set this up because I wanted a portable system that could use passive glasses, and the results aren't bad. I will post a more detailed account of it soon.

Haha, nice!

does it work as expected? will you maybe post some details about the methods used / issues to solve etc. in some forum post or blog post?

It's ridiculous! To use it, you need to connect it to the "video out" socket of the camcorder (so it can synchronise to the frame rate of the video). The active shutters significantly cut down the amount of light reaching the camera, so the image is very murky. Depending on the camera, there is quite a bit of vignetting, so you need to zoom in slightly to compensate, and worst of all, the left image is noticeably smaller than the right image! Back in the 90's there was no easy way to correct this. These days you can correct the alignment in the computer, but the video quality is so bad, there's no point in going to all the trouble. Still, it's an interesting piece of 3D history...

This looks very complicated :D