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View-Master shots - Negatives

Postby TacomaJoe on Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:35 am

This may not be forum for this but I couldn't decide where to put it. I was down at the Muni Bldg for a meeting and noticed this in the display case.
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Loaded up with a bunch of these with road and sidewalk photos from the 1952/53.
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I talked them into loaning it to me so I take a look at them. They came from the legal dept., and are mainly road surface condition and sidewalk trip hazard shots. It's interesting to me that they had a stereo camera to take the photos. For reference, they placed a cigarette package next to the crack for perspective. There were some aerial shots of the construction of Bantz Blvd., (now SR-16) and there wasn't a house (or road) in site. Nice walk down memory lane.

They ddn't yield much in the way of signals, only found one 4-way down the road in a shot. In the sign department there were a number of shots with yellow STOP signs. Sadly, I don't know of any easy way to get from the tiny slide on the disk to JPG so all you get is the word picture. I did ask about additional photos and they seemed to think that there were some around. Hopefully more to come.
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Re: View-Master shots

Postby LarryC39 on Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:42 am

You'd have to scan them with a scanner and a flashlight I think. I've yet to be successful scanning "negatives."
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Re: View-Master shots

Postby Crunge98 on Fri Jun 29, 2012 12:01 pm

Very cool :thumbsup:
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Re: View-Master shots - Negatives

Postby mikerm on Fri Jun 29, 2012 6:23 pm

Did a quick Google search, seems to be a few services out there, probably expensive though, there's also this that looks interesting: http://www.3dstereo.com/viewmaster/ims-rl.html

Just need a transparency scanner, which shouldn't be too expensive, and could be used for other things, or one might already be available.
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