Keep in mind that MF3D has several different formats.  The smallest is 4.5 x 6 cm (per eye-view).  The most popular is the square 6 x 6 cm.  A step up from that is the 6 x 7 cm.  There were a very few 6 x 8 cm.  Then, what in my opinion was the most impressive, the large 6 x 9 cm.  I used a pair of lantern slide projectors to project those.  Wess mounts made a 6 x 9 plastic mount (mono).  A pair of those fit in the two lantern slide projectors, since the outside dimensions of those mounts was 3-1/4 x 4 inches, the same as standard lantern slides.  They could be rotated for either portrait or landscape formats.  Yes, custom viewers could also be built for that size. I made one several years ago. 

John A. Rupkalvis

stereoscope3d@gmail.com

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:59 PM Edwin Clements eclements@yahoo.com [photo-3d] <photo-3d@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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This is true - MF3D is quite impressive.  

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Subject: Sv: [photo-3d] Re: Shooting film (not digital) & the new Ektachrome

 

*raises hand*

Film shooter.

Though I shoot both 35 mm with my Realist and Medium format with my trusty "souped up" Sputnik. : )

MF slides viewed in a viewer is priceless. Even in my poor Holga 120 viewer.

I need to get a decent viewer!

I also shoot 120 BW negatives for contact printing, though I haven't gotten around to do that yet. I just developed my first rolls BW though, an amazing experience and tingly feeling seeing the photos appear when opening the development tank.

35 mm slides from the Realist is also very nice in the Realist red button viewer, but definitely a smaller view.

The saying goes, if you haven't experienced MF3D slides in a decent viewer, you haven't experienced real 3D. : P

Can be argued of course, but it's hands down the best I have experienced so far and I would want everyone to try it.

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Den tisdag, oktober 2, 2018, 07:28, skrev boris@starosta.com [photo-3d] <photo-3d@yahoogroups.com>:

 

Hi Jack:

There are quite a number of people still shooting film.  All of the film shooters I currently correspond with are shooting medium format slides (usually 6x6cm on 120 film), as do I.  MF3d is the ultimate upgrade from viewmaster format.   We have our own yahoo group too!

I will dare to venture that we have more people shooting MF3d film right now than 35mm..  I think that because at the meetings (3D-con), I hardly ever bump into people that are showing off their latest 35mm creations, but I see lots of new work done in medium format.  Let's see a show of hands: who is shooting MF3d, and who is still shooting 35mm slides?

We MF3d folks shoot with cameras ranging from the venerable Sputnik, usually "souped up" in some ways, to the relatively modern Chinese "3-D World" cameras, to various flavors of twin-rig (e..g. Hassy's or Mamiya's), and also cha-cha.  MF3d stereoscopes are a major challenge to find, but occasionally someone steps up to the plate offering a nice viewer of more-or-less custom manufacture (cue Larry Heyda here).

For fine art shooting, the luscious tonality, color and level of detail can't be beat in MF film format.  I'd say, if you want to move up from Viewmaster, skip 35mm and go straight for MF3d!

cheers,

Boris

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That particular one used the four-mirror configuration.

John A. Rupkalvis

stereoscope3d@gmail.com

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:37 PM pgillis@cox.net [MF3D-group] <MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

John,

You say you made a viewer for twin 6X9 transparencies.  Did it only work for portrait format?  Or did it have prisms (or something else) to accommodate the images being separated more than your eye spacing?  Or was it a Wheatstone type?

--Paul Gillis

---In MF3D-group@yahoogroups.com, wrote :

Keep in mind that MF3D has several different formats.  The smallest is 4.5 x 6 cm (per eye-view).  The most popular is the square 6 x 6 cm.  A step up from that is the 6 x 7 cm.  There were a very few 6 x 8 cm.  Then, what in my opinion was the most impressive, the large 6 x 9 cm.  I used a pair of lantern slide projectors to project those.  Wess mounts made a 6 x 9 plastic mount (mono).  A pair of those fit in the two lantern slide projectors, since the outside dimensions of those mounts was 3-1/4 x 4 inches, the same as standard lantern slides.  They could be rotated for either portrait or landscape formats.  Yes, custom viewers could also be built for that size. I made one several years ago. 

John A. Rupkalvis

stereoscope3d@...

Actually, I have a MF3D projector with carriers for a couple of mount formats...

But it's big and clunky and I very rarely use it.

As Timo says, there's little point unless you have a huge screen... The projected image from a good 35mm pair looks just as good on "normal" (up to and including the screen size used at e.g. NSA Conventions.) screen sizes as a MF3D slide does...

We had MF3D projection at the NSA Convention in Buffalo some years ago. It was hoped to have a really big screen for the medium format, but we couldn't get it truly flat so MF3D was projected onto the standard screen.

I had designed a "hybrid" show that started with 35mm slides projected with the RBT projectors then changing to MF3D at an appropriate point in the show. The soundtrack was the track "Playing with the Big Boys" from the animated film Prince of Egypt... Sadly, there was not the size increase that I had expected so the MF3D just looked like a continuation as before...

Message: Don't bother with MF3D projection unless you have a silver painted house side to project on!

Bob Aldridge

 

True, there is no projector, but if you want to project, you will lose all the high quality you are paying for. You are better off shooting digital and showing on a stereo TV. 

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