Stereo Transposing Tailboard Camera

Here is my 1860's type sliding box tailboard transposing stereo camera. It has tripod mounts for normal portrait and landscape photos, as well as a slider board and removable internal septums for fully transposed photos on one plate. With this camera I can make portraits, landscapes, dual CDV's ( to print two at a time), stereo Ambrotypes and Tintypes, as well as plates that can be contact printed in and easily viewable fully transposed stereo images. If you have ever done any stereo photography you know what this means. If not I will explain. In stereo photos you need two photographs taken from two different positions. The photo taken from the left side must be put on the right, and the photo taken from the right side must be put on the left, when printing to see the stereo depth correctly. Most stereo cameras that take two images on the same plate need to need to separate the negative or place the plate in a transposing print frame, to switch the right and left image. This camera does all of the alignment and transposing in the camera so you have a true stereo pair from the start on one plate. and for Ambrotypes and Tintypes, that are 1st generation photos and have no negatives to make altered prints, this is the only way to make them in stereo. This is a wonderful camera especially with it's early 1900's shutter and lens that make it fast enough to use with modern sheet film. The older lenses as used in the 1860's just had a lens cap that you would remove for several seconds to expose the glass plated coated with a very slow collodian emulsion.The slilding lens board and slider base board have brass plates marked with settings for the right and left positions and stereo base markings for close subject distances from 6 to 30 feet, as well as center markings for use as rise and fall for perspective control on tall subjects. The stereo base is the separation of the photos. It is a ratio of 1:30 meaning the photos need to be 1 foot apart for each 30 foot distance. The two lens stereo cameras have a stereo base so close, that they can be used effectivly, only for close portrait work.