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The return of the beam splitter hailed as something novel

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Gerry Siegel
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The return of the beam splitter hailed as something novel

I had to chuckle when I saw a gadget here for cel phones that used two mirrors to give a stereo image on a cel phone. Or a mirrored beam splitter used to mount on a lens on a digital camera. This technology was my first venture into stereo with the StereoTach front silvered mirrors back in the 1950s. And I also bought a discontinued Elgeet prism base beam splitter a few years later. It had its simplicity of course. One lens and no modification to the base camera. Leica and Contax even improved on the idea by having two itsy bitsy lenses in one mount and a prism housing to get eye spacing added. ( And Bolex for movie work too) Allowed the small separation to be later used for macro. Was expensive. The Panasonic stereo lens adapter is a cheap low level idea that currently has not caught on. But it shows that there are many approaches to dual vision capture. My Elgeet attachment left me with a couple short films in 16mm stereo. That septum band was always a bummer and impossible to avoid via the technology used then.

16mm clip via Bell and Howell fitted with Elgeet stereo lens. Lost River Reservation , New Hampshire

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