Stereo Awesomeness

My "new" stereo camera arrived today! I looked up the serial number on-line and this camera was manufactured in 1955. My plan to use this to make animated digital images for display on a global computer network connected by fibre-optics and satellites would have have been wild-ass sci-fi when this camera was new... I'll have to buy some film in the underground mall and take it on the driverless robot-controlled elevated rail transit system and hydrogen fuel-cell powered bus to my union job as a municipal government computer programmer and make some pictures on my lunch hour. Then I can drop them off for processing at one of the many convenient and economical photo processing depots in the city to have the film automatically processed in just thirty minutes by fully automated, computer-controlled processing equipment.

I had to make a minor modification to the hot-shoe to allow it to take a modern flash. The one you see in the picture here is the one I bought for use as a slave-flash with my reflector umbrella. In addition to the modification to the hot-shoe I had to repair a bad contact inside the camera to get the hot-shoe to actually work. Basically that means I took the camera apart and attacked it with a dremel tool almost immediately upon taking it out of the box. Hooray for pre-space-age technology - stuff that runs on gears and levers.

Now I just gotta get some 50's babes like these ones from the manual to shoot with this thing...