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Hi,

I own a couple of the Raumbild Verlag stereo albums seen in the attached picture.
The quality of these stereos are absolutely stunning! The images are crystal clear and the amount of detail is through the roof in my opinion. (Although I haven't seen MF slides yet.)

Print size is about 52 x 52 mm per image.

These were made in the thousands and sold through out the Nazi Germany era in the 40's as propaganda to show the german citizens how "noble" their war cause is... crazy...


My question is, how do you think they manufactured these?
Could they have been printed by a machine?
Or contact hand printed in the masses?

If hand contact printed, how would that be done? What equipment would you need to contact print something like this?
If anyone has a link that explains the process to contact print MF stereos, that would be amazing. : )


All the best,
Jesper

I have a complete set of the "De Soldaten Im Field" in a similar bound book with many portraits of the Nazi High Command, etc.. - which appears to document the Nazi Invasion of Poland, but I don't read German. They are high caliber silver prints, as well, though very small and only viewable with the tiny folding metal viewer included. 

Hi Jon,


What would your guess be?

Could they be contact printed from medium format negs?
Or 35 mm enlarged?

If contact printed, how would you guess they went about to do that since they are on the same paper?

What camera would you guess was used to make these?


Sorry for all the questions, I'm just really interested in how Raumbild-Verlag made these in the 1940's.


All the best,
Jesper

Most of the references for individual photos in the archive at the German Historical Museum in Berlin refer to using Heidoscop and Rolleidoscop cameras. The lead person also had an ICA Polyscop camera. Reference is also made in later years to using a Zeiss Ikon 35mm camera.

That's interesting, thanks.

I wonder how these cameras compare to the Sputnik?