Picture a Day: Jul 16
Curse all the reflections... 😡
This is a vintage slide viewer I bought a while ago at TreasureFest, a combination maker fair and flea market. Someone had this on their table for $10, and I wasn't sure if it was working or not, but for $10 it was worth a shot. I cleaned it up, inside and out, bought some replacement E10 light bulbs, and got it working. 🥳 It's very simple inside. I'll maybe post pictures of the innards some other time.
You slot an individual film slide into the top and press down on the slide to activate the light switch. The switch is so finicky that I have to press harder on the left side of the slide in order to make it light up consistently, but that, of course, makes the slide crooked when you view it. 🤷♀️ :sigh:
I may buy some LED versions of the E10 light to see how that affects the backlighting. I'll also see if the switch mechanism can be tweaked so that it is more easily activated without making the slide crooked. Either way, it's a fun, vintage novelty that would look good on a shelf anyway. It kind of makes me want to shoot more Velvia slide film, though any time I look at my developed slides (I don't have many), they make me want to shoot more slide film. 😀
P.S. I took two shots with my iPhone, one focused on the slide, and one focused on the Pana-Vue plaque on the front, then stacked them in this simple app called Focus Stacker. At least whenever I want to mess with focus stacking for macro shots or whatever, I have the app (one-time cost of $14.99).
Edited to add this picture of the slide itself in the viewer:
