The American annual of photography (1919) (14780258274)

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Title: The American annual of photography

Year: 1919 (1910s)

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Subjects: Photography

Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward

Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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AN IMPROVISED STEREO EQUIPMENT By J. B. GALE S far back as I can remember my love for stereo-grams was greater than for any other kind ofpictures, and I resolved that if I ever madepictures they would be of this kind. That wasmany years ago, but I never forgot that reso-lution. A great many years later (I am now nearly sixty years old)I acquired a 3^ x 4^ camera, just a cheap one, and startedout to make stereo pictures. You can imagine my disappoint-ment when I tried to mount them and found they did not showany relief. Not knowing the reason I gave up. Some time later I found an old British Almanac and in itwas an article on stereo photography explaining the modusoperandi, and giving the reason why stereo pictures wouldstand out and show relief. It also stated that stereogramscould be taken with a single camera and explained how. 232

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This gave me a new hope so I went out once more and fol-lowed directions and found them to be correct, but the ap-paratus was so clumsy that I went to work to devise somethingthat would suit me better. The result is shown in the illus-tration (Figure i) which permits me to make stereograms ofinanimate subjects with an ordinary 3^ x 414 camera, mak-ing two separate exposures for the two required elements ofthe complete stereoscope picture. The illustration makes a description almost unnecessary.The part shown in the center is a slide fitted with a tripodscrew to which the camera is attached, the base of the deviceitself being fitted with a bushing that permits of its attach-

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