Polaroid land Camera with Robins atachment

 

Holidays in 1998 meant a trip to Florida and a subsequent visit to a camera fair where I spotted this unusual item. The camera itself is not so unusual - one of the original 'instant' Polaroid land cameras. What made it unusual was a stereo attachment called the Robins 1-2-3d that came with it. It was made specifically by Robbins for this camera - dated 1962 - and uses a standard twin mirror configuration to split the normal photograph in to a stereo pair. Like the Coronet elesewhere on this site the beam splitter allows you to take a single stereo shot or two seperate shots on what would otherwise be the normal polaroid. (I don't know how practical this would be - my recolllection is that those pictures are pretty blurred to start with!) The stereo 'add-on' comes with a viewer as part of the package. I havn't taken any 'polaroids' yet - but I will suggest it to my wife at the weekend...(!)