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Has anyone seen the manual for this six lens, medium format camera?
YouTuber Jack Joy, AKA Graindead has a question: does anyone have a manual for the 3DS-EXP 645, made by Sakai Special Camera? If you've never heard of it, you're not alone. According to Joy, it's a six-lens camera that takes medium format 120 film, and is seemingly designed to produce lenticular images that give a 3D or animated effect when viewed at different angles. It also appears to be lost to history or, at least, the Internet's recollection of it. Joy says he wasn't able to find a manual for it – or any real information at all – via Google. Despite that, he was able to make a decent attempt at taking pictures with it, a process he documents in an entertaining manner. Working off somewhat contradictory instructions written on the back of another copy of the camera that he found on an online auction site, he managed to produce a few series of images with the 3DS-EXP 645. The 3DS-EXP 645 is many things. Compact is not one of them. Photo: Graindead The process wasn't without speedbumps; like many old film cameras, the 3DS-EXP has gained a few quirks as it's aged, and finding vital parts for it is obviously not really an option. It was also expensive, given that each press of the shutter uses five frames of quite spendy film – assuming the camera has decided to cooperate. The sixth lens, obviously, is used for the viewfinder. Despite his success, Joy still ends his video with a call for more information on the 3DS-EXP 645. The video's comments do shed a bit more light on the subject; user klohto claims it's a rebranded ImageTech PRO645, and says it was made in 1992, and original sold for "12.5k," though they don't specify a currency. They also say the lens system was used in the Seagull 3DMagic Pro 645. However, both cameras are similarly obscure on the internet. We figured that, given our audience, there's a chance one of you may have some information on this system that hasn't ever been digitized. If so, we'd love to hear from you – have you ever used a 3DS-EXP 645, or one of its relatives? Do you still have one, or the manual for one? Let us know in the comments or on the fourms.
YouTuber Jack Joy, AKA Graindead has a question: does anyone have a manual for the 3DS-EXP 645, made by Sakai Special Camera?
If you've never heard of it, you're not alone. According to Joy, it's a six-lens camera that takes medium format 120 film, and is seemingly designed to produce lenticular images that give a 3D or animated effect when viewed at different angles. It also appears to be lost to history or, at least, the Internet's recollection of it. Joy says he wasn't able to find a manual for it – or any real information at all – via Google.
Despite that, he was able to make a decent attempt at taking pictures with it, a process he documents in an entertaining manner. Working off somewhat contradictory instructions written on the back of another copy of the camera that he found on an online auction site, he managed to produce a few series of images with the 3DS-EXP 645.
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The 3DS-EXP 645 is many things. Compact is not one of them. Photo: Graindead |
The process wasn't without speedbumps; like many old film cameras, the 3DS-EXP has gained a few quirks as it's aged, and finding vital parts for it is obviously not really an option. It was also expensive, given that each press of the shutter uses five frames of quite spendy film – assuming the camera has decided to cooperate. The sixth lens, obviously, is used for the viewfinder.
Despite his success, Joy still ends his video with a call for more information on the 3DS-EXP 645. The video's comments do shed a bit more light on the subject; user klohto claims it's a rebranded ImageTech PRO645, and says it was made in 1992, and original sold for "12.5k," though they don't specify a currency. They also say the lens system was used in the Seagull 3DMagic Pro 645. However, both cameras are similarly obscure on the internet.
We figured that, given our audience, there's a chance one of you may have some information on this system that hasn't ever been digitized. If so, we'd love to hear from you – have you ever used a 3DS-EXP 645, or one of its relatives? Do you still have one, or the manual for one? Let us know in the comments or on the fourms.
