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Stereo slides

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skanter
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Stereo slides

I have hundreds (maybe thousands) of stereo slides my father took in the 1950's. I have a viewer and have been enjoying seeing stereo images of myself and family as a child.

Excuse the novice question, but what options, if any, do i have for sharing them?

Thanks in advance,

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Sailor Blue
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Re: Stereo slides

skanter wrote:

I have hundreds (maybe thousands) of stereo slides my father took in the 1950's. I have a viewer and have been enjoying seeing stereo images of myself and family as a child.

Excuse the novice question, but what options, if any, do i have for sharing them?

Thanks in advance,

You can scan the slides into your computer and produce image files in several different stereo formats for display on a computer screen, TV, or even a smart phone or tablet.

Three have been a number of treads in this forum about scanning Realist slides.  Read through this thread to get you started.  Feel free to ask about specific equipment.

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skanter
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Re: Stereo slides

Sailor Blue wrote:

skanter wrote:

I have hundreds (maybe thousands) of stereo slides my father took in the 1950's. I have a viewer and have been enjoying seeing stereo images of myself and family as a child.

Excuse the novice question, but what options, if any, do i have for sharing them?

Thanks in advance,

You can scan the slides into your computer and produce image files in several different stereo formats for display on a computer screen, TV, or even a smart phone or tablet.

Three have been a number of treads in this forum about scanning Realist slides. Read through this thread to get you started. Feel free to ask about specific equipment.

DPReview - Relooking at Realist Slides on new 60" 3D TV

Thanks, I will check out the link...

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DSchwartz New Member • Posts: 1
Re: Stereo slides

Hi - I too have over 7,000 Realist slides that my father shot from 1956 to 1996. Best visual record of family life and relatives that I have other than my own memory! My dad tended to whip out the camera weekly; he drove my mom crazy but I am so grateful he did that. About 20% of the slides are damaged due to light leaks which I understand this type of camera was prone to because of the long back opening. However, they have survived multiple moves, being stored in the garage cupboard with no air conditioning, and a bad house fire. I would like anyone's input on the best way to scan these for family genealogy, realizing that the stereo effect probably is impossible to preserve, I am assuming that I would have to scan just one side at high dpi. Has anyone tackled this with success? I have an HP 8600 Officejet Plus scanner and could try using that with manually previewing and then adjusting scan dimensions and dpi/color settings. What do you think of that? Thanks.

Brian F Flint
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Re: Stereo slides

Its worth experimenting to make sure you get the quality that is best for you before doing large numbers of scans. I have a HP7500 printer plus scanner. it works but when I look closely at the scanned image, i find it has defects in the image  and I don't trust it for the highest quality. I have been given lots of family colour slides ( 35mm type ) taken in the 1960s. For these I used my macro lens on a good camera, and placed the slide , about 2 inches  above my smartphone which was showing a plain white image. I placed the camera on a tripod to do this. This gave good results.

I would recommend you get a scan of both the left and right image on your Realist photos. You can put these images into some free software ( Stereo photo maker which can be down loaded onto a PC ) and using this software, easily align them so that you have one side by side stereo images which you could view in various ways to still get the 3d effect.

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