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Stereoscopic camera (J.B.Dancer's Stereoscopic camera) with mechanical arrangement for transfering plates to and from the dark slide, Manchester, 1856.
John Benjamin Dancer (1812–87) was a photographer and inventor, based in the Northwest of England. He ran photographic instrument businesses in both Manchester and Liverpool. In 1853 he designed a twin lens stereoscopic camera, that simplified the production of stereophotographs. Early stereophotographs were taken by moving the plate, the lens, or the whole camera a carefully measured distance, between exposures. This created a set of images, that when viewed together through a special viewer, appear as a single three dimensional image.
Stereoscopic camera (J.B.Dancer's Stereoscopic camera) with mechanical arrangement for transfering plates to and from the dark slide, Manchester, 1856, patent no. 68.
Focusing screen for stereoscopic camera (J.B.Dancer's Stereoscopic camera) with mechanical arrangement for transfering plates to and from the dark slide, Manchester, 1856.
