Evan Lindquist’s Leitz Stereoly

Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany, made a stereo lens attachment to fit Leica 35mm cameras from about 1931 to 1940. The attachment was a beam splitter which placed two images on one frame of 35mm film (24 x 36mm). Each image filled half of a full frame, and the resulting photograph could be viewed either through a stereoscope or a special binocular viewer. The Leitz code name was "STEREOLY". Shown above at right is a Leica C III (1946) equipped with a STEREOLY. At left is my adapter for mounting the STEREOLY to a digital camera (Olympus C-60).

Download a PDF file showing how I cleaned and adjusted an old STEREOLY and mounted it on a modern digital camera.