Paging 3D fans

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There is apparently about to be a Viewmaster app for iPhones etc. that will let their owners download classic Viewmaster 3D reels and see the pictures in 3D. Eventually to be available for other platforms, apparently including Windows.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/10/view-master-fisher-price/

Shame that Viewmaster images were so tiny. Hopefully the master negatives are a bit bigger and higher definition. We will see...

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I've often wished that somebody would scan some View-Masters (both sides) for web pages. I've never been able to find the Winchester Mystery House reel(s?), for instance. Maybe it's time to look again.

But yeah, if they were to scan them from larger negatives, EVEN BETTER.

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I'm pretty sure they used large negatives for the originals, then microfilm technology to reduce them on high-resolution film.

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Forgot to add that this is why pictures from the Viewmaster 3D cameras were never nearly as good as the professionally-made slides - the cameras were a truly bizarre format which I'm remembering as slightly tilted 1/4-frame 35mm, and on standard 35mm slide film were as grainy as hell.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Yes. My only fear is that they'd farm the job to somebody who would cheap it out by scanning the commercial reels, in somewhat the same way the National Lampoon DVD is hastily scanned pages from the magazine at an unimpressive resolution.