This is a list of new Stereo products exhibited at the Master Photo Dealers and Finishers Association convention held in Chicago in the spring of 1954, at the height of the Stereo boom.
Cameras:
•Kodak Stereo Camera (Eastman Kodak): Dealers hailed it as the most significant, expecting Eastman's entry to stimulate the stereo field. Features "drop-in" loading, simple operation, and automatic shutter cocking to prevent double exposures. The price was rumored to be "under $100".
•TDC Colorist (Three Dimension Company): A simple, basic model imported from Germany.
•TDC Stereo Vivid Camera (Three Dimension Company): American-made, featuring a coupled rangefinder and an ingenious coupling between lens and shutter settings for automatic adjustments.
•Kin-Dar Stereo Camera (The Kinder Company): Designed by amateur camera designer Seton Rochwite, whose early handmade cameras were the prototype of the Stereo Realist.
•Wirgin Stereo Cameras (Wirgin): Two models imported from Germany, differing in shutter types.
•Wollensak Stereo 10 (Wollensak): The most expensive entry, resembling a Revere Stereo 33 but with higher-quality lenses and shutters. Wollensak was purchased by Revere.
Leica Attachment:
•Stemar (Twin-lens attachment) (Leica): Screws into the regular Leica lens mount. Ideal for extreme close-ups but doesn't provide sufficient stereoscopic depth for normal scenes.
•Prism Attachment (Accessory for Stemar) (Leica): Provides a wider interocular for the Stemar.
•Accessory Viewfinder (Leica): Required when using the Stemar
Projectors:
•Director Products Stereo Projector (Director Products): Features a long, tank-like housing.
•Diatom Projector (General Photographic Supply Co.): Manufactured by Schneider of Hamburg, Germany. Uses convection cooling and has a 200-watt lamp, limiting it to small-screen home showings.
Viewers:
•Kodaslide Stereo Viewer Model II (Eastman Kodak): Uses 110-volt current and has a knob to control lamp brightness.
•Kodaslide Stereo Viewer Model I (Eastman Kodak): Battery-powered. Both models focus by moving the slide and have adjustable interocular.
•Walden Industries Magazine Stereo Viewer (Walden Industries, Inc.): A table-top viewer that holds 20 glass-bound slides or 50 paper-mounted slides. Includes a third lens for reading slide titles.
Mounting Systems:
•Realist Foil Mount (Realist, Inc.): Foil mounts for conventional binding between glass, allowing for adjustable film separation.
•Adjustamount (Adjustamount Co.): Uses three metal parts and narrow strips of glass to create an adjustable mount.
Other:
•Holder and tool for Realist foil mounts(Realist Inc.): A holder for opening the Realist foil mounts and a tool that helps in insterting the transparencies. It also doubles up as a measuring device for near and far seperation.
From Popular Photography 1954-06ー