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The View-Remaster is a digitising scanner for old View-Master reels to watch them on modern tech

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I’ve spoken about the View-Master here on DIYP before. In fact, as recently as the Kandao QooCam EGO review I posted a few weeks ago. It’s something that many of my generation and older look back on with fondness and wonder. While positively primitive by today’s standards, being able to see images in 3D was amazing to us as kids back then and it still fascinates me today.

Well, one person, Jason Altice of the YouTube channel CodeMakesItGo has turned it into an obsession. So much so that he designed and built his own scanner to capture those old View-Master reels digitally so that he could put them online for the whole world to enjoy. He also released all of the plans and code so you can have a go at building your own, too.

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It took six months to create these ultra large 3D wet plates

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Austrian photographer Markus Hofstätter has published plenty of interesting wet plate projects. In his latest project, he brings together large format wet plates and stereo 3D photos. This was Markus’ most time-consuming project so far. It took him working six months to finish it, the first three just modifying his camera so it can take stereographic images. But judging from the results – it was well worth it.

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How to use vintage equipment to produce 3D photographs with modern cameras for $30 or less

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3D photography has been rapidly coming back into fashion over the last few years, and with dual cameras now slipping into our mobile phones, it doesn’t seem too far off until the masses are able to easily produce it.  Until then, we still have to get a little creative sometimes when it comes to producing 3D imagery.

In this video, Mathieu Stern of the Weird Lens Challenge introduces us to the Stereax, a device sold in the 50s which would mount onto the front of your camera and allow you to capture two separate viewpoints on the same frame of film, to be able to then view it in the future in all its 3-dimensional glory.

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