{"id":10798,"date":"2018-02-16T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2018-02-12T14:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T18:45:42","slug":"1956-and-stereo-is-rising-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/1956-and-stereo-is-rising-again\/","title":{"rendered":"1956 and stereo is rising again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10799\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Exakta-ad-Sept-1956-Pop-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10799\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10799\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Exakta-ad-Sept-1956-Pop-Photo-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exakta 3D ad from the<br \/>September 1956 issue<br \/>of Popular Photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. In the 1950s, stereo made one of its periodic rises to the conscious mind of the common man. Books. cameras, attachments and movies touted the impressive 3D imagery. I remember seeing a 3D movie one Sunday starring Vincent Price in a theatre on the Main in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Leitz had a number of 3D accessories for its cameras including the tiny <a href=\"http:\/\/evanlindquist.com\/othermedia\/leitzstereoly.html\">Stereoly<\/a> prisms that attached to its screw mount cameras (I have a Stereoly and arm in its original leather case).<\/p>\n<p>But none of the special 3D cameras or accessories could compare with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exakta.org\/popicollb.html\">Exakta<\/a> and its 3D accessories. With a <a href=\"http:\/\/collectiblend.com\/Cameras\/Ihagee\/Exakta-VX-IIa-(stereo-outfit).html\">suitably equipped Exakta<\/a>, one could view a scene in 3D <em>before<\/em> it was snapped! Of course, your eyes see in 3D too &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to George Dunbar who sent along this September 1956 Popular Photography ad for the Exakta V and VX accessory prisms and 3D viewer. Later cameras like the VXIIa or the Varex branded models could also use the 3D accessories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. In the 1950s, stereo made one of its periodic rises to the conscious mind of the common man. Books. cameras, attachments and movies touted the impressive 3D imagery. I remember seeing a 3D movie one Sunday starring Vincent Price &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/1956-and-stereo-is-rising-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[462,835,61,914,258,1668],"class_list":["post-10798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-3d","tag-exakta","tag-leica","tag-popular-photography","tag-stereo","tag-stereoly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10798"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10808,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10798\/revisions\/10808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}