Viewers Our Retro-Reels are guaranteed to work in the viewers we sell (when we have them in stock), but will work in any "View-Master" branded viewer made since the 1940s. We can't guarantee they will be fully compatible with other brands of miscellaneous un-branded viewers. If you buy an old View-Master viewer (zillions available [...]
Our Retro-View reels have images that are a very square-ish rectangle in landscape orientation. This can't be varied, it is part and parcel of the venerable View-Master system. Therefore, care should be taken when choosing your images. While it is possible to use other shaped images without cropping, they don't look great as they don't [...]
As the reel images are so small (about 11.5mm x 10mm) you can use images from pretty much any source, including your Facebook/Instagram/Flickr/Snapchat/iPhoto libraries. However, the larger and better quality your photos are, the better quality your reels will look when magnified in the viewer. The images are landscape orientated square-ish rectangle. You should bear [...]
To get true 3D images you need to use a 3D camera in order to capture the left eye/right eye views needed to create a 3D illusion. The Fujifilm "FinePix REAL 3D W3" camera works well Click for more info about FinePix 3D camera (no longer manufactured but can be found on eBay etc.). [...]
If you want the reels to view as 3D (stereo) in the viewer, then you must either supply 3D camera image pairs and order our standard reel here: Custom View-Master reels from your images or choose our AI created reel from 2D images here: Customised 3D View-Master reels from your 2D images Of course, ordinary photos (2D) don’t view [...]
Reels have seven images. At first glance it may seem that our Retro-View (View-Master compatible) reels have many more than seven images but remember that the viewers are binocular and each eye requires its own image to create the 3D illusion. Hence the 14 image windows. However, almost all of the reels we supply are [...]
