This software can automatically align the two images, color correct them to match, crop as a pair to match, auto rescale as a pair, copy / paste from one image to the other (for spot removal, etc) and almost any other desired transformation with the benefit of doing both images simultaneously as a matched set.
Doesn’t always work perfectly, but worth a try.įor those working with pairs of 3D images : there is a great (and free !) software for working with 3D stereo pairs : Stereo Photo Maker : available at : Some comments : others have suggested using a flatbed scanner and taking the whole reel at once : if you do, Photoshop has a feature that will find the individual chips in the composite and crop them into separate images. I compliment the creator on an effective project that gives great output ! I hope he will make the 3D model files available – it’s tempting to try it. Posted in Retrocomputing, Toy Hacks Tagged binocular, retro, scanner, stereoscopic, view-master, viewer Post navigation Even without the 3D effect, it’s still pretty cool to watch beat up a nuke again. There’s a whole YouTube channel devoted to View-Master captures, which are best viewed with a Google Cardboard or something similar. An 8-megapixel camera captures each slide, and some pretty slick software helps with organizing the image pairs, tweaking their alignment, capturing the captions from the disc, and stitching everything into a video. A ring of RGB LEDs beneath the reel illuminates the slides being able to control the color of the light helps with color balancing for slides with faded colors. All the parts for the reel carousel are 3D-printed, with a small stepper to advance the reel and an optical sensor to register its position. Regardless, capturing these mini-movies requires quite a bit of complexity. In the video below, project creator describes View-Master as “the YouTube of the 1950s.” We partially agree with only seven frames to tell a story, we’d say it’s more like TikTok than YouTube. The scenes were photographed from slightly different angles, leading to a stereoscopic image that was actually pretty good quality. Binocular eyepieces showed scenes from opposing pairs of slides, which were illuminated by a frosted screen and room lighting.
If you haven’t had the pleasure of using a View-Master, the gist is that a flat disc cardboard disc ringed with 14 color transparencies was inserted into a plastic viewer. And digitizing these miniature works of art is the purpose of this neat View-Master reel scanner project. One stalwart toy from this category is View-Master, the little stereoscopic slide viewer that brought the world to life in seven vibrant scenes.
The toys of the past may have been cheesy, but you can’t deny the creativity needed to build something engaging without any electronics.