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Originally posted by Elspode
another program I used as a demo had some features which made this much easier, but it wouldn't allow you to save, wrote "demo" all over your preview, and cost $100.00. For the cost savings, this program seems to do pretty much all the other one did, it is just a little more tricky to do the lineup of the pair.
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Pokescope. I just bought the "basic" version for $30; the "pro" version is more, but I forget how much. I have used the demo of the basic version and was happy with the results. (The demo won't save or print, though.) It'll produce pairs for either parallel or cross-eyed viewing, or anaglyphs.
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It would be nice to have some sort of device that produces simultaneous stereo pairs to work with, though. How much did you give for the camera you got, and why slides for scanning? Why not prints?
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It's a
Stereo Realist camera. I bought it on ebay for $90. These cameras were manufactured starting in the late 1940s. The peak popularity was sometime in the 1950s, but David White Co. continued to make the Realist into the late 1960s I believe. (Other companies, including Kodak, marketed their own models.)
The camera will shoot any kind of 35mm film, but the images have a nonstandard width, so they can't be handled by normal cutting machines at your local drug store etc. Some folks shoot negative film and then print it, but most use slide film, partly out of tradition, partly for aesthetic reasons (the slides in a lighted viewer really are very striking, plus increased color saturation in slide film), and convenience: all you have to do is have the film processed but not cut, then you can cut it yourself into little chips and put them into cardboard mounts.
There are also a couple cameras out there (one from Vivitar and one from Loreo) that you can get for less than $100 that are basically point-and-shoot cameras that take two exposures at once, but they split the traditional 35mm frame in half, so the film can be processed and printed anywhere. The camera itself is, like most point & shoot cameras, easier to use, but with less flexibility.
If you're interested, check out
www.stereoscopy.com and the photo-3d and 3D-StereoviewXchange mailings lists, both hosted at groups.yahoo.com.