The History Of The View-Master

We are going to bet that as a kid, you had a View-Master. This toy has been around for decades and is, more or less, a handheld stereoscope. We never thought much about the device’s invention…

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Check Out These Rare Stereoscopic Photos of Andy Warhol In His Studio

Newly available stereoscopic slides document daily life at Andy Warhol’s Factory, featuring artists and cultural icons of the 1970s.

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Alright, here's a minimal POC that makes a stereoscope card from an iPhone spatial photo at:

https://tilde.club/~moondog8/apps/stereoscope/

you can upload straight from ios photo library photos (you'll need to set the 'format' option to 'current' in the thumbnail browser options)

#stereoscope
#stereogram
#stereophotography
#photography
#3dphotography
#iphone
#spatialPhoto

Stereocard

Instruction pamphlet explaining the details of the ZEISS Standard N2 #Mirror #Stereoscope : Technical data, Technical Hints, Purpose of Instrument, Application, Use, Order Data. archive.org/details/WCWd... #CarlZeiss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ze... #ZEISS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeiss_(...

Anoush Anou and Kitty Jackson

Checking out some photos she has to view on her stereoscope

#Photography #ModelPhotography #VinatageCamera #Stereoscope #Caturday

TIL that iphone .HEIC photos taken in "spatial" mode (available on newer pro models,) which can be viewed in 3d on a vision pro headset, also contain an old-school stereo image pair that you can extract with Image Magick like:

magick original.heic %d.png

...which should give 3 numbered images.

I *think* 1 is left and 2 is right, not sure yet

...from there it's a hop, skip and a jump to cropping them square and making an OG #stereoscope card

Pennard Fouquet 45x107 format stereoscope viewfinder with a removable chain system manufactured in 1895 one of the first 45x107 format viewfinders with a complicated external focusing system.

#PennardFouquet #StereoScope #ViewFinder

3d #Stereoscope of #SWFC mug and #Anarchist cards - bottom pair is the cross view

Check the weather first - don't try it when the wind is due to change