C41
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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The View-Master Mark II Personal Stereo Camera is a 35mm stereo camera produced by Sawyers Inc. of Portland, Oregon - the same company that manufactured the iconic View-Master reel viewer - and released around 1961 as a refined successor to the original View-Master Personal Stereo Camera of 1952. Like its predecessor and the dominant David White Stereo Realist, it uses the 5-perforation Realist-format frame spacing, yielding 24x23mm stereo pairs that are compatible with the broad ecosystem of Realist-format slide mounts, viewers, and projectors. Twin fixed lenses, a central leaf shutter, and all-mechanical operation requiring no battery follow the conventions of the mid-century American stereo camera category. The Mark II introduced refined cosmetics and mechanical refinements over the original Personal model.
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C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
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Kodak UltraMax 400 is a versatile consumer-grade ISO 400 daylight-balanced color negative film with T-grain emulsion, delivering warm Kodak colors, fine-for-speed grain (PGI 46), and wide exposure latitude. Currently in production and available globally as a single-roll and multi-pack.
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About this camera
Sawyers' refined second-generation Personal Stereo - a cleaner Realist-format camera from the brand behind the iconic viewer.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm (5-perforation Realist-compatible format) |
| Frame size | 24 x 23 mm stereo pairs |
| Stereo baseline | ~70 mm |
| Years | ~1961 - ~1965 |
| Lenses | Twin coated f/2.8 or f/3.5, ~35mm each |
| Shutter | Central leaf, ~1s - 1/200s + B |
| Flash sync | X-sync |
| Meter | None |
| Focus | Scale / zone focus |
| Battery | None required |
Sawyers Inc. entered the stereo camera market in 1952 with the View-Master Personal Stereo Camera, leveraging its established brand recognition in the stereo viewing space to sell into the same hobbyist community that owned View-Master reels and viewers. The Personal used the Realist format, ensuring that its users could take slides and view them with any Realist-compatible hardware - including, importantly, the View-Master Personal Stereo Viewer that Sawyers sold as a companion product.
The Mark II, introduced around 1961, refined the Personal's design with updated cosmetics and mechanical improvements intended to address criticism of the first model. By 1961, the postwar stereo photography boom had meaningfully subsided, and Sawyers was competing in a contracting market against the entrenched David White Realist line, the Kodak Stereo, and imported German alternatives. The Mark II was produced for a relatively short time, with production believed to end around 1965.
Sawyers continued as a stereo entertainment company - producing View-Master reels - long after the camera line ended, eventually becoming part of GAF Corporation.
The View-Master Mark II occupies a specific cultural position: it is a camera made by the same company responsible for the most widely distributed stereo viewing format in history. While the View-Master reel format (7 stereo pairs on a circular disc, using a different frame size entirely) was a proprietary consumer product, the Mark II camera shot Realist-format 35mm slides - the enthusiast standard. This meant the camera was aimed squarely at adults who took their own stereo photographs rather than the mass-market children's entertainment audience for View-Master reels.
For collectors, the Sawyers/View-Master branding gives the Mark II a name-recognition premium over functionally similar cameras like the Revere Stereo 33. The camera's existence in the same brand family as the iconic viewer is a genuine historical curiosity: Sawyers built both the means of viewing and a camera intended to feed that viewing experience, even though the reel and the 35mm slide formats were incompatible with each other.
C41
Kodak ColorPlus 200 is an affordable, consumer-oriented daylight-balanced color negative film at ISO 200. Known for warm, slightly muted color rendition, fine grain, and wide exposure latitude, it is currently in production and widely available in Asia and select global markets.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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