Transposing Frames - Antique and Vintage Cameras
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A negative taken with a dual-lens stereo camera will have its two images transposed. To be viewed correctly the image from the right-hand lens has to be on the right of the print or transparency. A transposing frame allows each image to be printed separately and moved to the correct position.

Stereolette

c.1909

W. Butcher & Sons Ltd.

London

England

45 x 107 mm plates.

This was sold as an accessory for the Stereolette camera - a metal folding plate camera. It was advertised as the Primus Transparency Printing Frame, also made for 6 ¾" x 3 ¼" plates (though not called the Stereolette).

Construction:
Mahogany.

References & Notes:
BJA 1910, p. 132.; Photo Fashions, p. 185.

Transposing Frames

1) For 6 x 13 cm plates. Removable pressure plate.
2) 3 ¼" x 6 ½" plates, made of walnut.
3) 3 ½" x 5 ½" plates, made of mahogany, removable pressure plate. Similar models made by Chadwick, (PA 1891, p. 552).

Stereo Hawkeye Self-Transposing Printing Frame

Blair Camera Co.

Rochester

USA

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6 ½" x 3 ¼". Later sold as the Stereo Kodak Printing Frame.

References & Notes:
Westminster Cat. c.1930, p. 71.

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