Richard verascope, how to take the pictures....

Well, here are all the boxes filled with glass plates from my grandfather taken between 1910 till 1917 at least, and most of them haven't been seen for the last 40- 50 years.

I got bout more than 30 boxes filled of those glass plates, what is missing is the camera.

But I do have the stereoscopes, big and small format to check the pictures in perfect shapes.

Got pictures from WW1,  family and lots of various ones. I am actually scanning them all with my Epson V550, it takes time to scan them all as you know, slow process. I will create a special homepage for that in the future for my project.

Now, I'd like to know if there is on the market a modern camera taking digitally those kind of pictures, is there any ?

Cool camera you have btw, but is that from the 1920's ? I am really wondering with what kind of camera my grandfather would have taken those pictures.

Gerry Siegel wrote:

freakpix wrote:

Thanks for those replies, my question was actually a stupid question as I actually wanted to keep the 3D effects after taking pictures of the glass plates on the computer but it's actually impossible to view those 3D pictures without a stereoscope I guess, unless there is a way to reproduce the effect on the computer.

Btw, is there on the market a camera taking those kind of pictures in verascope, if you ever call it like that, like the ones that were in use long time ago ?

Thanks for the help !

It would help if you gave a better description of your specific model Verascope plates, although I suspect I know what size you are dealing with. Likely 45X107 mm plates which, I once found yielded two images about 2-1/4 inches square. There were, of course, viewers , old ones now to see them in stereo. Plate viewers were the thing in the 1920s. If you are intent on seeing them in stereo, a copy to digital and perhaps a projection via an LCD projector via shutter glasses.

Now we are getting into a not so common modality and few out here have any experience with same......Yes, of course you can make prints of each image, it is not unlike printing Rolleiflex size images, but as positives. Then you would use a print viewer. Old Holmes style.

I picture here my antique Ica Polyskop camera with plate magazine gelatin emulsion film back- which I used only once and free viewed. PS How many of these suckers you got? If your Verascope glass plates were originated from such a camera, then I understand what you got....

Every question has an answer that says it can be done..with some work and research.

Is the answer easy or cheap enough becomes another question. If the images are of family or historical value, then a way is worth the effort and time.

Ica Polyskop glass plate camera of late 1920s with plate magazine changer. In 45 X107 ( moderate) mm size. Zeiss Tessar uncoated but sharp four element matched lens yielded sharp images from my test.