Sawyers View Master Mod Standard

LauraJ23 · 14 Feb 2011

Hi everyone, this was found during a clear out, does anyone on here remember these? I have taken a look at google, but can't find a date of when it was manufactured, or if it is worth anything? Also can you tell me what cameras were used to take the slides it shows?

AlanSmithee · 14 Feb 2011

I remember the handheld, 3-D viewer. That appears to be a 2-D version. Here is a page with some info about it and some other models. There is a link with to a picture of the instruction manual.

http://www.viewmaster.co.uk/htm/projectors.asp

EdMoss · 15 Feb 2011

From the pic on the box it looks like it uses pics from a disc camera.
They were not very popular in the early/mid 80's.
About 1/4 size frames (if not smaller) of 35mm so you can guess how bad the quality was.

Doubt if you could buy the film and get them developed today.
Probably worth very little to nothing..

TheBigYin · 15 Feb 2011

Edtog said:
From the pic on the box it looks like it uses pics from a disc camera.
They were not very popular in the early/mid 80's.
About 1/4 size frames (if not smaller) of 35mm so you can guess how bad the quality was.

Doubt if you could buy the film and get them developed today.
Probably worth very little to nothing..

It's for projecting these Ed...

instead of looking at them through one of these

and pre-dates disk film by quite a margin. Came out in 1939

AlanSmithee · 15 Feb 2011

TheBigYin said:
It's for projecting these Ed...

instead of looking at them through one of these

and pre-dates disk film by quite a margin. Came out in 1939

That would be a 3-D disk and viewer. He appears to have a 2-D projector version meaning the disk will hold 14 images.

EdMoss · 15 Feb 2011

That's really really posh...I only had the red version...

TheBigYin · 15 Feb 2011

AlanSmithee said:
That would be a 3-D disk and viewer. He appears to have a 2-D projector version meaning the disk will hold 14 images.

But the great thing about all the Viewmaster stuff was complete forward and backward compatibility for the source material. Even showing the 3D disks on the 2D projector would work - there would just be 2 sets of 7 images.

LauraJ23 · 15 Feb 2011

Interesting info, thanks. Im wondering if there is a disc camera knocking around somewhere.