Stereoscopic viewers

The following stereoscopic viewers have been owned and used by Hans Sundgren.

View-Master

Technical data

  • Image media: View-Master reel, 7-picture cardboard reel
  • Image format: Positive film 11×10 mm
  • User interface: Button for change picture forward
  • Dimensions: 120×95×73 mm
  • Weight: 0.118 kg

196x

Hans gets his View-Master as a Christmas gift during the 1960s. The kit includes the viewer and a set of view-master stereo pictures.

Good

  • Very interesting for a small child.
  • Easy to operate, just one button for changing picture.

Bad

  • The viewer has to be directed to a light source.
  • Difficult and expensive to get new sets of pictures.

Picture reel

The kit includes the viewer and a set of view-master stereo pictures: Christopher Columbus. The set consists of 3 reels with 7 pictures each. Hans do not get any other sets of pictures than Christopher Columbus.

End of life 1979

When Hans moves from Linköping to Västerås the viewer is discarded.

The pictures are kept and scanned in 2008.