Leica stereoscopic ISOR desktop. Vintage. 3D stereo images using photographic technique (double photos). It includes base bar with adjustable angle by levers and Leica glasses with double mirrors set parallel photos (Photo pair L R one for each eye). The dimensions are 46 x 41 width x depth 60 height. The weight is 7.5 kg. It has been used primarily as a viewer sheets descriptive geometry, classical aerial photography and photography of the early twentieth century. It is used and is in perfect condition. included some other accessory is unknown if.
the Megaletoscopio (id 8878.) and different views
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The megaletoscopio is an instrument invented by Carlo Ponti and patented in 1862 our collection is a beautiful wooden apparatus for curved views 35x26cm and other formats. includes 11 wonderful pictures views day and night of Venice, Vesuvius Luxembourg, the Vatican ...
Carlo Ponti (1823-1893) was an optical Swiss origin who came to be optical officer Victor Emanuel II king of Italy. Ponti had also been a talented photographer who studied in Paris for 8 years and settled in Venice in 1854 . Thanks to the discovery in 1847 of the use of albumin in photography by Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor (nephew of Joseph Nicephore Niépce), photographs on paper opened a new door to the photographic business
Ponti was well known for his " Ricordi di Venezia" , photo albums on Venice where you could check the touch so special I had to show the depth and perspective of its architectural images . in 1861 Ponti patented his Aletoscopio, an optical device for viewing pictures albumin or paints through a lens and one year later presented an improved and expanded version of the Universal Exhibition in London: the Megaletoscopio
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the Megaletoscopio Privilegiato is just a larger version of the Aletoscopio, which photos are viewed through a lens that creates the optical illusion of depth and perspective Both Ponti like. other peers prepared photographs especially to be seen through this instrument, with perforations, scrapings and papers added colored then mounted on a frame of curved timber. These images created by multiple layers getting dramatic effects of day and night depending on the placement of the light source : If the upper flange opened the image offered a vision of day, however if the light entrance was closed and it came in through the rear hatch looked the effects color night view, shadows, etc. so you can enjoy this device we leave this video, very illustrative of the dramatic changes of light that you can enjoy with this viewer
the important development of transport during the Industrial Revolution meant that travel was easier, safer and faster, something that greatly increased tourism However, those who could not travel began to enjoy." virtual tours" : Ponti and many other photographers produced images for their new devices from their travels around the world many of them have come to us and were once how many people could know the reality" virtual" . Middle East and Europe without leaving their rooms
