YouTuber Jack Joy, a question of aka Granded is: Does anyone have manual for 3DS-EXP 645, which is made by Sakai Special camera?
If you have never heard of it, you are not alone. According to Joy, it is a six-lens camera that takes a medium format 120 movie, and it appears to be designed to produce lenticular images that give 3D or animated effects when viewed at different angles. It also appears to be lost for history or, at least, the internet remembrance. Joy says he was not able to find a manual for this – or any real information – through Google.
Despite this, he was able to make a decent effort in taking pictures with it, a process that he used to do in an entertaining manner. While working on an online auction site that he found on an online auction site, he managed to produce some series of images with 3DS-EXP 645, while working on another copy of the camera.
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3DS-EXP 645 are many things. Compact is not one of them. Photo: Dana |
The process was not without speedbump; Like many old film cameras, 3DS-EXP has received some quirks because it is aged, and finding important parts for it is clearly not really an option. It was also expensive, given that each press of the shutter uses five frames of the film quite expensive – assuming that the camera has decided to cooperate. The sixth lens, of course, is used for visualization.
Despite their success, Joy still finishes his video with a call for more information on 3DS-EXP 645. Video comments throw a little more light on the subject; The user Klohto claims that it is a rebranded imagetech pro645, and says it was built in 1992, and originally sold for “12.5K”, although they do not specify a currency. They also say that the lens system was used in Seagal 3 Dimijic Pro 645. However, both cameras are equally unclear on the Internet.
We felt that, looking at our audience, there is a chance that one of you may have some information on this system that has never been digital. If yes, we would like to hear from you-have you ever used 3DS-EXP 645, or one of its relatives? Do you still have one, or manual for one? Tell us in comments or on four.
