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Back before I was into photography, my Mom gave me a camera as a present: An ImageTech 3DFX. It’s a plastic fixed-focus no controls camera that had three lenses. It recorded three vertical frames per click on standard 35mm film. Despite my best intentions over a decade ago, I never used it. Back then, they had a deal with Walgreens and other major photo labs to send film back to Imagetech to process. In a few weeks you’d have some 3D prints.

In the modern day, ImageTech is long gone. You can only get those prints at one lab in the world, and it takes months and a lot of money.

Or you can have fun digitizing the negatives yourself and using Photoshop to create any number of spiffy effects. The animated gif above is probably the coolest. I tried doing anaglyphs — the type of image you need 3D glasses for. The results are not spectacular with this image. I think extreme closeups don’t work so well for this technique. I’ll try again with more landscapular subjects sometime.

Also, I see I get some light leak in many of my middle frames from this old plastic cam. Hmmm.