I’ve been seriously collecting postwar Stereo Cameras, and making and viewing stereo slides. This IS a World apart from “ 2D”, and a lot of really Beautiful and Unique Cameras were built from 1945 to the early ‘70s. ••••• Seton Rochwite, the inventor of the Realist, also designed two other cameras. The mid priced Kin Dar, and the Contura. A Real Beauty, built in 1955, it was a late in the stereo craze attempt to produce a real masterpiece, Information is scarce, but apparently the company (Stereo-Corporation. Milwaukee Wisconsin) ran into financial trouble, and the few cameras built were made to satisfy investors in the company. As few as 150 (or 130) were built. Serial numbers start with an A or B, this one is B1012.. The covering is high grade polished calfskin, by Perrin. The only bad part of the deal is a past owner put three strips of labelmaker tape with exposure instructions on that beautiful calfskin back! It will take care but I’m sure I can get it off. •••••. An “innovation” of sorts, aimed at making stereo photography ‘easier’ was the Gold Bar which ran across the front. Given the ideal stereo exposure iof the era was 1/50 at F 6.3 (Kodachrome,sunshine and blue skys) ....when the Bar was all aligned you were doing it “Right”. A lot of Stereo Realist concepts still remain, such as the bottom viewfinder and left side shutter release. Rochwite never gets the credit due him. In Many ways he equals Oskar Barnack (imho).