3D Mounting Guide: A Practical Guide to Mounting Stereo Slides

by Harry zur Kleinsmiede basic

This easy to understand guide illustrates the important aspects of proper mounting slides from 3D film cameras to 3D slide mounts. Precise mounting allows for delightful and dramatic hand or projector viewing of 3D images. Alignment issues: horizontal, vertical and rotational adjustments are clearly explained in this illustrated 23 page guide.

The 3-D Mounting Guide is for everyone who is fascinated by three-dimensional photography and practices this branch of photography or intends to do so. Correct mounting of the two images producing the stereo image is essential. It is an important part of stereo photography that requires a great deal of precision, if you want delight in your stereo slides without headaches. If you know what to pay attention to when mounting and what happens when shifting the slides inside the mount, then stereo mounting will be less difficult than supposed. By adhering strictly to the rules in this instruction booklet you will get perfectly mounted stereo slides.

Harry zur Kleinsmiede had actively occupied himself with stereo photography for thirty years. He is co-founder of the Netherlands Society for Stereo Photography, founded in 1973, and of the International Stereoscopic Union, founded in 1975. In 1985 he established 3-D Book Productions, a publishing house specializing in publications on stereo photography in past and present.