Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — CAMERA AS A STEREOPTICON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAMERA AS A STEREOPTICON

Ingenious Ide* by Which Photographic Apparatus May Be Made to Do Double Duty. - 1 / A handy method of turning an ordinary camera ii\to a stereopticon with which you can project enlarged images of photographs, picture postal cards, etc., upon a screen is described by F. E. Brimmer In Popular Science Monthly. The author gives to the contraption the hybrid name of cameropticon. Procure a box about 18 Inches wide by 24 inches long and in set your camera with its back removed. At the point where the lens contacts with the side of the box bore a twoinch hole. At a point six inches back of the camera place the photograph held upon a support. Near the camera, but where it will not shine into

Its back, place a bright light with a reflector behind it to concentrate the glare upon the photograph. Take your cameropticon into a dark room, turn on the light and you will find an image of your photograph upon the wall or screen provided*. Use a 120 candle-power bulb. , Of course you will have to focus Wntil the image is clear. Paint the Inside of the box black. The dotted lines show the path of the ligh rays.