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Ian Andvaag D27 submission

by Ian Andvaag

70-Mile Butte

Taken on a hike on the west side of Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan. The trail is only a couple miles long, and the trailhead is about 15 miles from the US border, so I’m not sure what the name refers to. The sun beats down hard and there is very little rain.

Boreal Floor

A close-up from Prince Albert National Park in central Saskatchewan. I blew the whites a bit, and a blade of grass is blowing in the wind. MF3D is tough to get right!

Bergenia in Wild Light

I was unsure about submitting this image (barely made the shortlist), but my test audience liked it, so I thought I’d see what the pros say. This was taken after a spring rainstorm. The clouds cleared away right before sunset and I had 15 minutes of absolutely crazy light. I couldn’t travel too far since time was short, I took a couple shots in the alleyway and this bedding plant. The dynamic range far exceeded what Velvia offers. This would have been clear candidate for an M-chrome.

Dickman Mill Ruins

These are some remains from a sawmill constructed in the late 1800s. Taken in Tacoma, WA during 3D-Con 2022. After mounting this slide, I did a google search to remind myself of the name of this location, and apparently the creosote treated pilings have now been removed.

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.

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.

Paul Gillis d26 Submissions

by Paul Gillis

When I received the Dragon Folio, I realized that I hadn’t taken any MF stereo images since it last came my way.  (Shame on me!)  So on a beautiful sunny afternoon in early October, I took my TL-120 (original 80mm lenses) down to the National Gallery of Art in the center of Washington, DC.  I shot 3 rolls of Provia 100, mostly at f/16, 1/60 sec.  I didn’t totally flub any of the exposures, but many of my 18 pairs were marred by excessive contrast, usually with my main subject being too dark.  I have some very powerful battery-powered strobes, which could have helped some of those pictures.  But I imagine the security guards would have chased me away if I’d shown up with an assistant & flash units & no commercial photography permit.  I don’t think they even allow tripods unless you have a permit, so these were all hand-held.

It’s a very sad state of affairs that there are no longer any E-6 processors in the Washington, DC area.  I tried out a lab in Manhattan called the Color Resource Center.  Their price was very reasonable ($7.50/roll + $6.75 return shipping), and I thought they did a good job, with a fast turnaround.  But the post office really fell down on the job, taking a full week to get my package from the DC suburbs to NYC.

Paul Gillis Image #1 for Dragon Folio d26

NGA Sculpture Garden

Two Modern Sculptures in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.  On the right is Four-Sided Pyramid by Sol Lewitt, from 1999.  I couldn’t figure out the name or the sculptor for the tall piece on the left.  To me, this slide looks okay in a viewer, but perhaps it will have too much disparity for some people.

Paul Gillis Image #2 for Dragon Folio d26

National Archives

The South Entrance of the National Archives Building, seen from the Sculpture Garden across Constitution Avenue.  I wished that my camera had a wider lens for this shot.

Paul Gillis Image #3 for Dragon Folio d26

Flowers in the Sculpture Garden

I think these may be some of the same flowers seen in the foreground of my first image.

Paul Gillis Image #4 for Dragon Folio d26

Fountain, National Gallery of Art

One of two matching fountains on either side of the great staircase to the South Entrance of the National Gallery of Art’s West Building.

Rock Collection (GSB)

by Paul Talbot

The label on the back says, in part, R16 (Canada) / 5, but also says it was taken on the University of Texas campus on July 1, 2003.  Apparently I had some film to use up after a 2003 trip to Canada.  I usually think of GSB as meaning Graduate School of Business in the context of UT – Austin, but that doesn’t jive with my memory of which building had this rock collection outside it.

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Jets

by Paul Talbot

Shot at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas.  It seemed like a good opportunity for a “through the window” MF3D image.  I used these jets for shooting test rolls in Sputniks that were, to one extent or another, “fixed up” for sale via RMM.  I don’t recall whether this was from such a test roll or something I shot just for fun.  Might or might not even have been a Sputnik.

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