Timo’s Submissions

by Timo

Aiming At Gold Coast

This image is from 2024 near Gold Coast Australia. I presume the wooden canon is a substitute for a real one, which are probably in short supply.

Roo

This Kangaroo is living in a reserve near Gold Coast.

 

Grand Canal bustle

Taken some years back (2017?) from the Rialto Bridge. We had mostly overcast skys, but I was shooting anyhow. Few came out very well.

Oil Pull Lineup

This shot was taken at the Milton Steam show in Sept 2025. I love going to this show for the cool machines and for the stereo opportunities.

All these images were shot with my tricked out Sputnik, and old film from the camera show.

 

 

 

 

 

Rumbero Con El Rolleidoscop

by Steven Lederman


I belong to Rumberos, a Cuban music study group. Every year we travel to a different part of Cuba and study for a week with various musicians and dancers. Most of the group are percussionists, but often people will join us on various trips who are interested in dance or interested in the Cuban culture. Each year I attend I shoot video footage and create three minute condensed versions of our trips. I’ve brought various stereo cameras along on some trips and have used them to take travel snapshots, usually at pit stops on the way to our workshops.
“Johnny Coming Through The Stereo Window” – Johnny Bullen, brother of pianist Eddie Bullen, laughs at all my jokes, so I consider him a great guy. If asked he’ll play bell, clave, timbales or cascara.
“Pausa Para Fumar” – Our bus driver for the 2023 trip.
“El Coche Verde” – – I was going to include some portraits but the ones I liked really needed some fill flash, so you’re stuck with the obligatory Cuban old car shot. The engine is probably running on modified Soviet car parts.
“Meet The New Swinger” – You’d have to be as old as I am to remember the photo-related commercial that began with “Hey! Meet the new Swinger!!” This is Vic Ramnarine, who’ll gladly sit in with any band on tumbadoras, even when not asked to do so.

Lake Superior Ice (near Duluth)

by Linda Nygren

This was taken with a “tuned” Sputnik, along Lake Superior on Minnesota’s “North Shore” a few years back. Although Lake Superior does not freeze over entirely in winter (unlike smaller bodies of water with less wave action), there are typically areas in protected bays that will freeze over for a time. These ice sheets then “break up” periodically and the ice plates pile up near the shore, as seen here. The sound during the breakup is incredible, although I have not had a chance to observe in recent years. Hearing the sounds prior to the breakup when the water motion causes a sort of “belching” under the ice is also  quite an experience.

 

 

Zach Horton’s D26 Submissions

by Zach Horton

As always, I try to include varied shots in the folio, often experimenting with different lenses and processes. This time I’m experimenting a bit with focal lengths: 47mm, 105mm, and two different 80mm lenses. I’m also experimenting with film stocks, as noted below. Three of the four are shot on negatives and printed to slides using M-Alchemy‘s M-Chrome process, while one is on standard slide film.

Surrounded

I thought this and the following shot would make a nice diptych! The model is Helena.  This was shot with the Mercury Stereo 12, with one of my favorite lenses: the Schneider Super Angulon 47mm. I’m always looking for the right subject for this fantastic lens! This was shot on 65mm 500T IMAX film and printed as an M-Chrome. The shot contains very bright sunlight as well as deep shadows. No slide film could have captured this, but I was pleased to see that the significantly higher latitude of Vision 3 film and the M-Chrome process was able to retain a great deal of detail in the highlights and shadows.

Caged

I shot this on the Stereo 12 with Mamiya 105mm lenses, to get a radically different feel from the shot it’s paired with. I tried to soften the background a bit via selective focus to obscure the fact that I’m slightly exceeding my depth budget. Generally the eyes don’t try to focus on out-of-focus details, but this is all experimental! Let me know how it works for you! Shot on 65mm 500T IMAX film and printed as an M-Chrome. The negative got a little brutalized on this one, adding some scratches.  (The image shown here was a different take than the slide; the slide version is better, but we only scanned this take.)

Galapagos Boardwalk

This was from atop Bartolomé island in the Galapagos. On this island, the one that most influenced Charles Darwin, no visitor is allowed to set food on the natural rocks and soil of the island, as part of its extraordinary ecological protection. The result is that when one sets foot on the island, one must walk from the dock to the boardwalk seen here. A trail then wends through the peaks of the island in a large loop. From this vantage I was able to capture the somewhat strange sight of the boardwalk, as well as a cactus-like plant that I had never seen before, but found alien and beautiful. Taken with my Mercury Stereo 12 on Kodak E100 film with Mamiya 80mm lenses.

Visitor From Another World

I watched this amazing fungus grow for several months before finally taking this image. (Note: the digital image here is a poor snapshot of the slide on a lightbox; we haven’t scanned this negative yet.) I used a Rollei 6006 to shoot this as a sequential macro, as I had it loaded with special 65mm Double-X film (made specially for the movie Oppenheimer, and given to me by the folks who worked on that film) for another project. This was partially a test of the Mercury Stereo Toolkit app for MF3D, to see if real world results would vindicate its calculations for macro 3D. I think it nailed it! This is an M-Chrome made from the negative. I discovered that Double-X BW film makes really spectacular M-Chromes. I shouldn’t have been surprised: it is a negative film designed specifically to make film prints! 80mm lens.

Seattle Space Needle behind Ferris wheel

by Jim Harp

Photographed with twin YashicaMat 124s. I got some nice images with this rig, it was great for slight hypers like this one. Unfortunately I never figured out how to get both shutters to fire consistently and always had a few wasted shots on any pair of rolls.

Provia 100F pushed one stop. I believe this was a four second exposure at f16.

Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco

by Jim Harp

This was photographed with a Twin Mamiya C220 rig using 135mm lenses. I quite enjoy the “stretched” effect of slightly hyper telephoto stereo. I had the right camera aimed a bit too far to the right and hadn’t been able to mount this image until I happened upon a sample of Ian’s 127 format mount. This reduces the width enough for me to be able to get a usable window for this shot.