Le Mul­ti­phote is a man­u­al mul­ti-view stere­o­scope designed for 24 glass slides. Turn­ing the knobs on the sides moves the front pan­el out­ward, allow­ing a slide to drop into posi­tion before the lens­es. Fur­ther rota­tion trans­fers the viewed slide into a detach­able tray in the stor­age com­part­ment below, while the next slide moves into place. Once all slides have been viewed, the tray can be removed and placed on top of the device. Slid­ing out the bot­tom of the tray reloads the slides into their orig­i­nal posi­tion. This elim­i­nates the need to turn the device upside down like with the less advanced view­er ‘Le Min­imus’. Hav­ing mul­ti­ple stor­age mag­a­zines at hand allows for quick and effi­cient slide replacement.

Fur­ther read­ing: Stere­oscopy His­to­ry Series — Lucien Bize (A. Ruiter)