Ivan Rose Camera

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The ebay listing for Ivan’s stereo camera:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330333996904

 

Ivan says he can add a partition to the dark slide which was designed for wetplate to accommodate two dag plates.

 

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[TheDagLab]

This camera is incredible, and unfortunately sold by now… but does anyone happen to have a stereo camera they would like to part with?

[phuphuphnik]

Ray over at Star camera co makes them. I can vouch for his work, too. Sadly, they only have f11 lenses, and are really only suited for wet plate according to Ray. BUT I’m sire if you had matched lenses he’d work with you…

chriso

[TheDagLab]

Good to know thanks. Yes, I’m starting to think the best way to avoid large F-numbers would be to use the sliding camera method like Alan.

[CasedImage]

I have a page for ivan’s cameras in the tech galleries – http://www.cdags.org/?page_id=610

the stereo attachment with 6th plate camera in action can be seen at the bottom of the page.

Also there are a few variations on this design – can be seen in vintage examples at

http://www.cdags.org/?page_id=285

Ivan does amazing work – fine dovetailing and design. He does machining of brass to make flanges for lenses and other metalwork. His cameras sometimes come up at the Christies camera auctions in London with the vintage material. I heard of camera collectors getting him to make sliding box cameras without the hole for the lens as apparently this was how they were bought in the 19th century – you then choose a lens and had it fitted.

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[jgmotamedi]

I have heard from some stereo fans that part of the stereo illusion is dependent on a fairly wide depth of field, so working with f11 and beyond may be necessary. A few years back Ray made a stereo lens board (two lenses with a septum) for my 8×10 Deardorff; so you might want to look into this. I still have never used mine, but it looks nice. Steve Silipigni makes really beautiful cameras, including a nice stereo camera.

[CasedImage]

A Claudet trick for stereo was to focus one half of the stereo in the foreground and the other in the background to exacerbate the stereo effect, which does work very well. The main thing I would think is you have two identical lens or use the same one twice and have the correct inter ocular separation.

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