Duplicating 1950s era stereo slides??

Hi,
I would like to have duplicated some slides taken with a Stereo Realist
camera about 50 years ago. They belonged to my uncle and have extreme
sentimental value. They are also in great shape, with no apparent
fading or other problems.
My local photo shop tells me that the only thing they can do for me is
to scan and digitize them. And they can only do that by cutting the
slides in the middle, thus effectively destroying their use in a stereo
viewer again.
What I would like is to have them duplicated just exactly as they are,
plus digitizing one image of each pair as jpegs. Is this possible?
Thanks for any help!

Richard DeLuca

Re: Duplicating 1950s stereo slides?? THANKS!

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<odyssey-4D6D50.20084121082006@syrcnyrdrs-02-ge0.nyroc.rr.com>,
Thanks for the advice William, Denny, Geoffrey and Nicholas.
I haven't yet decided what to do, but I suspect I'll send them out to
get prints and digital images. I've given up on duplicating the stereo
slides themselves- too expensive and they really wouldn't be of much use
to me anyway. Again, Thanks!

Richard DeLuca

Re: Duplicating 1950s era stereo slides??

Yes. I only wanted to prove that you can scan 1/2 of a Stereo Realist pair
without chopping the slide in half.....Although it is a bit tricky....The
slides aren't two inches high, like standard 35 mm slides, so they don't
really fit properly in the slide holder that came with the 5400.....I have
to insert them rather carefully, making sure they remain equidistant from
both edges of the holder, or the 5400 software will detect an error, and
hang up, and I'll have to start it again from scratch......I do have to say,
however, that those old Kodachromes are in excellent shape.....Over 30 years
old, and no mould spots or faded colors, or nothin'.

William Graham

Re: Duplicating 1950s era stereo slides??

Ahhh, good old Kodachrome red noses... Gawd I love those
pictures...err, harrumph, unhhh, I mean - How could you possibly post
such a bad photo, the colors are off, the clothing is long out of
fashion, the furniture is postitively plebian middle class... This is
the digital age fer-gosh-sakes, where pictures must be Photoshopped,
cropped, sharpened to a razors edge, color corrected to a standard of
perfection, inserted into a Java applet with music, autoslide
forwarding, etc... Jeez, what are you, a dinosauer? Get with it man!
denny
Hey, thanks for posting the pic... I love it... Looks just like the
ones of my kids, in the boxes in the closet...

Denny

Re: Duplicating 1950s era stereo slides??

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Here is an image of my daughter taken in March of 1975 with a stereo realist
camera.....I was able to scan the left half of the stereo pair without
cutting the pair in half with my KM-5400 scan elite film scanner. It was
taken on Kodachrome film, but I don't remember whether it was 25 or 64
ASA....
http://www.pbase.com/w_e_graham/image/65568542/medium

William Graham

Re: Duplicating 1950s era stereo slides??

Personaly, I would go a completly different route. Back when 35mm slides
where popular, you could buy a 35mm slide duplicator. It had a place to
stick in the slide, some horizontal and verticle adjustment, and often
a T-Mount to use on most cameras.
You pointed an external flash at the duplicator and snapped away. The better
ones had adjustable focus and there were really high end zoom ones that allowed
you to magnify a portion of the image,
The esoteric features such as through the lens flash metering are not needed,
once you get the exposure calibrated for your film and slides, you
can just keep snapping away. You may have to experiment a bit to get the
best results, trying different films and exposure.
If you want to just make more stereo pairs then you use 1:1 magnification.
If you want prints or scans, then "zoom" it up to full frame (not quite,
many stereo pairs are slightly wider than half frame) and use negative film.
Then you can just take the film to your favorite lab and get prints (which can
be viewed with a hand viewer) and scans at any resolution you want.
A cheap setup is probably a junk box item and can be had for very little money.
A really good one that goes on a real flat field macro lens (not a zoom
with a "macro" setting), would go for more. Nikon sold one at one time,
and AFIK, so did Canon, Minolta and Pentax.
A quick web search yeilded such things as how to build your own for almost
nothing,
One for a camera with a fixed lens:
http://www.bugeyedigital.com/product_main/bow-sdd.html
The same unit was sold under several brand names for varying prices.
Here's the kind that go right into the camera. This listing is for
Adorama who no longer has any in stock.
http://www.adorama.com/CESDZ.html
B&H also did not have a similar model.
Geoff.
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Re: Duplicating 1950s era stereo slides??

"Richard DeLuca" <odyssey@stny.rr.com.invalid> wrote
http://www.studio3d.com/pages/slideservices.html seems to know
what they are talking about.
Google brings up a reasonable pile of data with >duplicating stereo slides<
as a set of search words. The quality of same...
You can get a reasonable scan with a high-quality flat-bed scanner.
I use an Epson 4990 and the scans aren't drum scans but they are a
lot better than they have any right to be.

Nicholas O. Lindan

Re: Duplicating 1950s era stereo slides??

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Yes. My KM 5400 film scanner will allow me to put a stereo slide in the
outside slot while it is in the scanner....This is so you can scan a slide
without having to remove the whole holder which holds 4 slides....So, I can
put the stereo slide in the outside slot and scan it, and then (if I still
want both images) I can remove it, turn it around, and put the other side
in.......One of the images will be upside down if I scan it properly, but
that's OK, because I can rotate it in Photoshop after I get it into the
computer. Then they can be printed like any mono slide, or just displayed on
the computer screen.