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pnwmom

(108,980 posts) Thu Jan 31, 2019, 02:11 PM Jan 2019

3-D (stereo) slides from the 50's and 60's -- I have hundreds of them,

old family slides, plus a viewer. I would like to get them copied so other family members could see them -- maybe have them put on a DVD?

Does anyone have any ideas for how or where to do this? There are places online that say they could make images from 3-D slides, but I don't want to just mail them off to some place I don't know. (I live in the Seattle area.)

Thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas.

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3-D (stereo) slides from the 50's and 60's -- I have hundreds of them, (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2019 OP

I sent off hundreds of old negatives Quemado Jan 2019 #1

Stereo Realist? I love 3-d slides and I have transferred many... masmdu Jan 2019 #2

If you just want to share the images, scan one of the pair csziggy Jan 2019 #3

If there's a copyright, I own it. These were my grandfather's photos, and they're mine now. pnwmom Jan 2019 #4

Quemado

(1,262 posts)

1. I sent off hundreds of old negatives

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 02:34 PM

Jan 2019

To a company a few years ago for digital images and prints. I had a good experience. I would do it again.

masmdu

(2,536 posts)

2. Stereo Realist? I love 3-d slides and I have transferred many...

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 03:47 PM

Jan 2019

So, the look is something great with the viewer. Is yours Kodak or Stereo Realist or some other make?

I still shoot with a 3-d Stereo Realist camera on occasionn. To share them and archive them you can do a digital scan. There are several consumer grade slide scanners available. I have found that you get the best image if you take them out of the holder/viewing sleeve, scan and then re-set them into a new holder/sleeve.

Once you have them scanned there are free 3-d image combiner sharewares available to re-constitute the images as a red/cyan, polarized, or digital 3d pair. You can even send these pairs off to be printed as lenticular 3-d prints.

Alternately, you can track down stereojet substrate and print the image and it is viewable as 3-d without glasses!

Try these for 3-d related supplies and services. I think they may even scan for you.

http://www.3dstereo.com/

and

http://www.stereoscopy.com/

Good Luck.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

3. If you just want to share the images, scan one of the pair

Reply to pnwmom (Original post)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 08:42 PM

Jan 2019

Though viewers are pretty easy to find in thrift shops, reproducing the slides as 3-D slides is more difficult and may violate copyrights.

A while back someone asked about this and one of the sources I found recommended just scanning one of the images from each slide. The difference between the two images is slight and that would give you digital versions that are easy to share.

Here is the earlier thread with the links I found: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181098519#post2

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)

4. If there's a copyright, I own it. These were my grandfather's photos, and they're mine now.