Verascope F40 Stereo Viewer

France, late 1940s-early 1950s

One of my favorite 35mm filmstrip viewers is the gorgeous Verascope F40 transposing viewer that was a companion to the F40 camera. It takes in light from a diffuser on its top and has a reversing prism behind each lens so you can view image pairs in 3D directly from the camera, without having to cut, flip and mount the images. The first version was mahogany & chrome. A later version was made from black bakelite and was designed to completely contain the filmstrip inside the unit. Both could be mounted on a stand which is extremely hard to find today.