Film from a camera shop. They will send it to a lab in New York. Send instructions not to cut the film, transparency slide film. I will cut and mount in the slides. I have the stereo mounts.
Thatās so cool. Resurrecting old tech. When you get this up and running Wayne, would you add your method of filming to the Wiki at the top of the page?
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Hi Bill, I tried to add a comment to your 3D post. Waiting hours for it to clear. My question, can you focus your eyes the way you explained? I can not. Many years ago I had a view master.
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Hi Wayne,
Hopefully I can help.
I suspect itās because itās a WIKI.
I found the easiest way was with a tablet like an iPad or phone.
See if you can forcefully make your eyes blurry. This helps, but is not essential.
- Get a rough idea of the distance between your pupils
- Set the distance between the center of each picture to roughly the same distance (so if you put your nose to the screen each eye is looking at the middle of each picture)
- If you know how to make your eyes blurry this part is a bit easier, because itās best if you donāt initially focus.
- Be sitting down looking at a tv across the room.
- Bring the phone or iPad up to your face and try to make (convince) your eyes to look at the tv through the phone/ipad screen. This actually keeps your eyes looking straight out.
Asside: When you look at things up close your eyes naturally want to cross. You can prove this to yourself by focusing on your finger held between your face and the TV because the tv in the background will double as you focus on the finger
- Slowly pull the iPhone/ tablet away from your eyes until things start coming into focus, and if youāre doing it correctly youāll have 3 images and the center one will be in 3d.
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Wayne this video may help.
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Hey Wayne, how did it go?
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An update, I finished up my first roll of film in the 3D camera. Dropped it off at the local camera shop. They will send it to Kodak in New York. Three week turn around. 
They will not cut the transparent film, I hope. Then I will mount them in the 3D slides.
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Got the transparencies back from New York. 70-year-old camera not always operating the shutter. Still got a few pictures, I will post when I get the film cut and mounted.
Wayne, are you happy enough with the camera, that youāll continue to use it?
Not in itās current condition. Today I just got the light box so I will be able to easily view what images are on the film strip. Little confusing as they run: AR BR CR AL BL CL DR ER etcā¦ Two exposures between the right and left lenses. Did that make sense?
There doesnāt seem to be anyone around that might be able to fix the shutter. Maybe more dry fires to see if it starts working more consistently.
I was reading this blog and it mentions a Dr. T in Ohio who I wonder might be able to point out where to get help in the USA.
Bill, very useful for me. I found Ohioās Dr.Tās website. With the phone number listed I called and we talked. Turned out he was the Ebay seller that I bought the 3D slide mounts from. He did not know of anyone repairing the TDC camera I have, but he knows a lot about the Stereo Realistic cameras. I may go deeper in the rabbit hole and get a camera from him.
Glad that you may have found a solution.
The other site that might be of help is camerarescue.org, a group that want to help people find a place where they can get their camera repaired, or alternatively donate their old cameras to be used as spare parts.
Wayne howās the project coming along?
Bill, not good sir. Turns out the slide mounts I received are not correct. Wouldnāt be too bad if the frame was too small but they are too large. That means to use those I would need filler or, just try to find different mounts.
Dr T was the only one who listed mounts for the TDS camera, and as stated they are wrong. So, at some point throwing more money at a failed attempt doesnāt seem like a good choice.
Oh no. Could you 3d print the slide mounts?
It looks like there are some plans out there.
Stereoscopic Slide Holder 
(LINK)
That might also allow you just to get the film produced locally and you mount your own.
This is interesting. Problem I have learned, different camera brands have different distances between the two lenes. Very important the transparencies need to match that distance. No standards for those 70-year-old cameras. I do not have a printer.
Basically, I did get the film processed locally. Local camera shop, they sent it to Kodak in New York. Local labs do color print negative film, very few labs doing E-6 transparency film processing.
Thatās quite interesting. Does that mean the camera has a preferential distance to make 3d pictures?
With my phone app, I need to stand in roughly the same position and shift my weight from my left foot to my right foot. Apparently, that small sideways movement is approximately equivalent to the distance between my pupils, so it creates the two slightly different viewpoints needed for the 3D image.
Then, when viewing the two images, it helps to size them so that the centres of the images are also separated by roughly my interpupillary distance. If that makes sense, the way I take the photos and the way I view them are essentially mimicking the way our two eyes see the world.
If Iām understanding you Wayne, you are saying that each camera company produced a viewer that overcame the distance between the lenses on the cameras they made, and that Kodak might not be the correct mounting system for your cameraās photos.
Yes, the slides match the camera lens separation. Back around post 8, I mentioned the issue with my eyes. Basically, my right eye does not move left to match my left eye. Special glasses fix the issue. I reread this whole post. Method 2, crossing my eyes I see three images, sure enough the middle image is 3D 
So, some of the printed images in this thread I was able to see the center image in 3D. To be honest, my right eye didnāt like doing that. Not going to make a practice of the cross-eyed method.
Oh yeah, the cross eye works every time and yeah, it really hurts.