Toronto. Alldyn Clark was a fan of stereo. He concocted various pieces to create his stereo gems. In issue 18-2, Alldyn tackled a Kodak Monitor with amazing results. His article is titled, “Res[s]urrection of a Kodak Monitor 620 Camera”.
The tripod mounted apparatus took closeups of many subjects including eye, teeth, and berries. Alldyn begins his article with this information, “In the March/April 1990 issue of Photographic Canadiana, I wrote an article on combining dual motorized Hasselblad cameras to obtain the ultimate in stereo photographs.
“Looking back to the year 1948 I had been using a Kodak 35 camera, the first the company put on the market. Kodachrome slides were taken until one day friends insisted on seeing prints, instead of slides, since these could be passed around as well as duplicated. So I decided to trade away from 35mm. and enter the roll film format.
“The first call was into Pylon’s Camera Exchange, then on the East side of Yonge St. in Toronto, without success. Young’s Photo, on Queen near Sherbourne, was just starting in business and didn’t have anything I wanted. I finally ended up at Lockhart’s Camera Exchange in a basement on Bay St. where I spotted a handsome Kodak Monitor 620 Camera.
“With a trade and an extra fifteen dollars I joined the world of the medium format. Many other cameras have gone through my hands since the 1948 trade for the Monitor and it had not been used for some time. An article on macro stereo inspired me to dig it up and see just what could be accomplished with it.”
Members could read the entire article (with photos) either in the hard copy issue or later the pdf version on the members-only DVD. Membership is cheap and easy – see above and to the right of this page. Questions? Give Lilianne a shout at member@phsc.ca.
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