Pictures with the VIEW-MASTER CAMERA | STEREOSCOPIC EKTACHROME 

The US Army Air Corps used these in the during World War 2 to train airmen on how to identify aircraft. I volunteer at an aviation museum in southern Virginia, and we have a few of the war era view masters, with the original reels that we use to let guests look through and use. However, since COVID started we aren’t letting guests use them for obvious reasons.

I remember as a child being blown away by the high resolution images in my view master. As a teen I wondered why the sports illustrated swimsuit issue wasn't released on viewmaster discs...such a missed opportunity back then.

Stereoscopic photography also has a long and interesting history in the psychology field, interesting stuff.

I am nuts about 3D I still have the view master that I had when I was a child. I have continued to by reels throughout my life. I love the travel ones. I have about 300 sets of reels. Before I organized and alphabetized them, I would forget I had something, and then I would buy it again, so I had to organize them. I also bought a Kodak stereo camera and took hundreds of pictures with it, and mounted them in realist stereo mounts. I LOVE looking at the pictures in 3D.

Well crap I guess I gotta go get this equipment to do this cause that sounds really fun for sure thanks for the idea and great video keep up the great work❤️

Recently I got into scanning old view master reals to save them digitally. I can view them on my vr headset. I also have 2 3-d digital cams. V-R makes it easy to share with other people. However I just realized it can go the other way too. I could print out the photos and view them in a google carboard viewer, no batteries needed. Got a special someone? Those old keychain photo viewers would work. Give one side to your partner and when you are together then the complete 3-d image is visible by holding both up to your eyes at the same time. Just realized how much I was limiting myself with digital formats.

I have the 1950s camera and the film cutter ..I've made a few reels but need to hone my skills with the camera and actually didnt know about the feature that takes the film backwards and gets a second row of slides! Doh! .. I still have some blank reels though and am planning on taking this up again in the new year! :D..

Your content always makes my day, this was amazing. Thank you for this, keep up the good work :3

You're really not a true film enthusiast until you have shot film in a viewmaster camera, mounted it in viewmaster discs, and shown them on a viewmaster projector.

Amazing video! I grew up with View-Masters, but I had no idea that people made their own reels. I appreciate the time and patience it takes to put these together. Bravo!

This was awesome, thanks for getting all this together and making a video on it!

Omg. I am a view master collector and have gotten into cameras more lately and this is heaven. Thanks for the vid!

Started collecting VM around the time this video came out - just revisited and hats off to you for doing your research. Really good video; great job.

yo been waiting for you to upload a video on View Masters, dope 😎🤙

I learn so much from this channel

I have my parent’s wedding pictures in ViewMaster’s 3D. My mom recently dies and my dad is in assisted living now. Watching their wedding pictures in 3D got me nostalgic and wanting to a) repair some of the reels and b) get a similar setting to start creating my own 3D photos is how I discovered your post. It is by far the best introductory video I’ve seen of this retro 3D photography process, by the way so thank you for taking the time to make this video. I like the ViewMaster system better than the bulky Oculus. It seems to me a more user friendly viewer and the fact that is still used today is a testament to its concept. Wish me luck as I start my new hobby. You are not kidding when you say the empty reels are hard to find. I wouldn’t have the heart to sacrifice someone’s family pictures for mine. I’m might invest in a dyecut machine.

Dude, I just bought a Viewmaster and some reels on eBay!!!👍

Very nice, pure analogue

Wow, definitely want to try this out. Thanks for sharing! I had one as a kid, but to get my own images on there and create a project or gift for someone would be so rewarding!

beautiful video!

Very helpful.Thank you.

That’s so cool! I never even knew this existed!!

Very good. Nicely done video. It is great to see something about 3D by someone who knows what he's talking about.

This is super cool!

That was awesome - I never knew there was a whole set of things to make your own disks. Thanks for presenting! (Looking forward to see the episode with the projector that you may not yet have...) ;-)

I remember these when I was a kid but I wasn't aware that you could make your own images wht magic

I love the viewmaster!! I had some Timon and puba slides back in the day!!

Hello,I started my, Viewmaster collection in the Year 1971, and I still, have them and take that.

I remember back in the 1980s my mother bought me a viewmaster which included star trek reels. It was a unique experience. A went to an antique store the other weeks and I saw the same concept on a wooden made stereoscope from the 1800s.

Cool and interesting 😍😍😍

Had one as a child in the late 80s :D and there was one in my hands in 2015 as a Promo-gift for the movie 'The Walk' with Jospeph Gordon-Levitt. 'Cause it deals with hights it was a nice idea to show this with some oldschool 3D-Effect :)

Someone needs to make an Etsy store where they make these. I would die

This is very cool

wow that's awesome great ❤❤❤❤

Grew up with those, the 3D effect was insane. Lestrade was also making rectiline strip films for those.

I have seen these cameras on Ebay. Now you have me interested. Thanks, Thanks a lot. Seriously this was a very cool project. You stuck in there and got them made. I got a baby rolleiflex and a project I want to do is super slides. Found some slide mounts now I need to cut down some ectar 120 down to 127.

Well this was really interesting never knew you can make your own View-Master reels. I do remember having a few Disney ViewMaster reels with images from Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Very cool, I don't have a stereo projector yet but I have a few single lens projectors they made for viewmaster reels.

Good job, man! My grandfather bought 2 of these cameras and a film cutter back in the late '50s, so we have a lot of family photos on View-Master reels. I started scanning them, but it's really hard to get those little pictures clean! You know you're going to need a silver screen if you get that projector, right?

I remember the empty reels still being sold in the 1970s in the little foldup catalog that was packed into each view master picture set. I think any way to get the reels manufactured today would start with contacting a Chinese company that manufactures playing cards and sending them some samples to see if they can do it.

Amazing channel . Need find my old View Master :)

Wow! Didn’t know the View Master has been around that long.

I have the tan camera the film cutter and the stereo matic 500 projector love them all

I have always enjoyed the Holga 3D and the 120 3D stereo pairs you get out of that. It's quite a bit more simple and more resolution but the same issue of getting more slides to mount the film in is impossible.

Thanks for such a good video! I like old formats, and slow food too! Best wishes, Hunter, founder Highway Cinema, an all-16mm film screening project(with over 700 screenings so far! It’s not a business or a charity, it’s just free screenings of real reel films.)

In the 80's, I used to make 3D photo's by sticking 2 disposible camera's together and press the buttons at the same time. Then made a primitive 3D viewer from wood and some maginify lenses.

The red one. 1970's, early 80's. I had one. Different things bought to put in it. Own stuff would have been good. Most would not. Nice camera to do that. Good video. I did the modern digital way from 2012. I got the 1st generation Panasonic plasma 3d 42 inch TV and 3d bluray player. Still got and working. 1st lot of the glasses, powered by a 2032 3v coin cell. Big, horrible glasses, paid dear for the next gen smaller. Guess still work if in built battery charges. Not used for years but the TV and bleray goes, 3d or not. Mostly not!. Had some free discs with the telly. Avatar was one, 3d. Had a 3d camera in 2012 so 2 years on, see on a holiday in a shop window. Came home, googled and found best price a Fujifilm W3, 3d camera with that nintendo 3ds screen. Was 3d on its nice size screen. Only do landscape photos for it to work. All i like anyway as TV or monitor not 90 degrees out. Horrible portrate video anyone!, Cant stand it. That camera lasted 5 years, sold it for a normal one. It did 3d and a Jpeg at same time. one lens for the jpeg. Plays on a 3d media player with hard disk bay and HDMI to that now over 12 years old Panasonic TV. Or do a jpeg of them. 3d came and went on the telly. A few programs. Our London mens Wimbledon tennis final back in the day, 2012? was done as it on a different channel to normal telly as it want out 2d. Here in UK we could go on a web site, upload photo and it come back as a print on that funny lenticular (hear you say on this and another video). Was deat £10 or so for a print, I did one. Not the best 3d photo, was a timer job of 3 of out in some woods, walk, Not very 3d, The photo was not. £10 wasted. Think a banging 3d photo. banging print, I stuffed up my choice. At mum and dads in the dining room. It looks like a print, disapointment. Got email saying company doing at ending, Daft idea, too dear, it not last. Expensive print machines I bet. An idea that never took off.

I bought the camera years ago. I was looking for a Realist Stereo Camera, and just came across this somewhere and bought is because it was stereo. I did have some pictures mounted and they were good, but the 4 year old got into them and it seemed like punching out the pictures was his goal.

I never knew that they made the means to create personal view-master reels. I think they're really neat, they shouldve continued manufacturing these-- mainly the view master reels titles from tv to movies, special subjects, etc. They're far more worthwhile as collectibles than cards, or PokeMon for that matter

Who's here before 150 likes?? Amazing videos dude

I had a brown Viewmaster like the one in the old ad that you showed in the video and I also had a Viewmaster projector. I don’t know if you ever heard of those.

I cut out the reels with a CriCut And on ETSI somebody who made the file .. Works !!

Great video! Do you recall what back in the day the jewlers loops with 35mm color film attached at the end were called?

I had something similar, I had a really small hand held projector that would have a small disk the size of a 10p coin that would do the same thing as a slide projector

I remember having a similar viewer as a child late 90s/ early 00s

If you could get a high Res scan of an empty disk, they would be 3d printable, and you could also make a film cutter quite easily

A very brilliant and thorough explanation. Is this something that can't be done with digital cameras?

As another film focused channel, I’ve been enjoying your videos. I’ve sent you a message on your Instagram.

My understanding is Fisher - Price owns the die stamping machine that makes the reels, but it’s broken. They won’t fix it, or sell it to someone who will.

Have someone with a laser cutter make a bunch of those blank reels. They could make quite a few easily.

My husband made many reels of personal photos in the 50s and 60s. How can I scan them to my computer and print some for grandchildren?

Pretty sure you can most probably get to 3d print those things...

I know there's a company were you can get custom view master reels made image3d.com but I know it's not the same as doing it yourself. They even have an option for 3D images

I actually have the View-Master that would have matched that camera. It belonged to my great grandmother. I am not entirely sure when it's from, I assume it to be from the 30s or 40s.

I love this. I snagged a great camera on eBay and cutter on Craig's list. I picked up some Ektachrome film. Is the ASA setting from the 50s same as today? In other words, would you set the top ASA guide to 100 for Ektachrome 100?

You should combine those pictures using red and blue anaglyph stereo

any tips on fixing the film transport? mines definitely showing it's age so basically gotta cut them one by one since they dont line up :')

This is so fascinating. At one point in my life I went cuckoo and spent all my $$ on view masters and I’m pretty sure I got the camera AND cutter somewhere. Do you know if you can you sort of use the camera like a regular film camera that shoots 4 in frame? Like a half frame camera but double the images? 😂

How does the view master projector work? Polarized glasses or something? Without some form of eye separation, wouldn’t it just be an overlapped 2D image?

How to put our photos that is inside my phone to the camera film so i can cut it and use it inside the reel ?

Very cool that this is possible, but it seems like, even in the day when the tools were very accessible, that one would have to be seriously nerding out to want to make one of these reels...much less many of them. Seems like there could have been and could be a much simpler system. Are smartphones fulfilling this role today?

I still have my 1960s ViewMaster and reels. Back in the late 70s, I made a stereoscopic camera from two 126 cameras joined together, and with a coupled shutter and got some great stereo photographs (I still have those, too). Recently, I bought a Kodak Stereo camera and viewer and took the camera out in April/May for some lockdown shooting. I never thought there was a complete end-to-end way of producing ViewMaster reels though. Awesome video! My GAS just got worse. BTW. There's an interesting insight into the Sawyers factory here: vimeo.com/20696900

My question about the projector is "Does the projector cast a 3d slide show on the screen?," because you wouldn't need 3d glasses like you did at a theater for the 3d movies, right.? I was given a 3d VM camera, and I have some of my own originals, but a slew of the best ones got stolen at work. My camera won't advance the film any more, so I'm not active with it. Where would I find a film cutter? How available is film on the market? Thanks for your You tube Presence with this.

Could you laser cut the blanks?

you should just mod the viewer into some funky sunglasses

What about the one eyed view master that plugs into the wall

Massive pain isnt it. I used to do something like this with twin 35mm film, but man, its not worth the hassle. Digital is so easy. The only way this makes sense is if you like the process, not the results.

can i make a reel from a digital camera ?

What about create the reels using 3D printing?, you only need one of the empty ones or one already with images as a model. This is too expensive for me but i wish have the money because i love the idea, specially for a couple projects i have in mind.

Have you heard of Retroviewer? They make new ones for you!

Can’t imagine how much this video cost just for the supplies alone

I wonder what would be the best way to sell my Viewmaster Personal camera, cutter, instruction books, and a few blank Viewmaster Personal reels?

Can't you order the reels directly from the current View Master corporation? I ordered a bunch of blanks years ago. I don't recall how much they cost, but it seems like they were pretty cheap. But, perhaps, they stopped selling the reels?

So, the companies that make reels from your family pics today, they ARE NOT stereo 3d? They will appear as a flat image in the view master?

Yesterday's Oculus quest lol!

Maybe someone engineering minded could make a die to punch card stock? I don't see how making your own reels would be that difficult to do if you had a template. After all they are basically 2 layers of punched cardstock with slides mounted in them

Get the dimensions down on a file and Im sure there is a mom with a cricut out there willing to help.

Canadian

dont put ideas in my head, im already broke

Dedication for an expired 3-D format!

Why would you only get 69 exposures on a 36 exposure roll exposed twice. Should be 72

I'll just leave this here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r3BNPHy7b3A.html