Mercury Immersive Parlorscope V3

This slide viewer offers a shorter focal length, and thus more immersive perspective than our Deluxe Parlorscope. This is particularly effective for slides shot with wide-angle lenses and for users who prefer to feel like they are "inside" the images being viewed.  It utilizes professional glass lenses of exceptional quality (60mm), a comfortable, ergonomic design (with individual eye focusing and adjustable interpupillary distance). Viewing through this immersive viewer, unlike all standard viewers, brings you very close to the image, filling your peripheral vision. It is like being in VR. (Some people prefer more distance, as with our Deluxe Parlorscope, while others love being fully immersed. If you love VR, this Immersive version is for you.)

It includes a large, high-end backlight that is extremely bright, has a CRI (color rendering index) greater than 95 for vibrant, accurate colors, is completely even and diffused, and runs off of USB (plugged into an adapter, a power bank, or our highly recommended Battery Handle), so no more batteries to worry about or destroy your electronics through leakage.  It has a universal carrier system with carriers for many different slide mounts (and we can make new ones if desired). Our backlight electronics have been updated, and all newly purchased Parlorscopes now feature fully adjustable brightness.

Unlike our Deluxe Parlorscope, this Immersive Parlorscope features a backlit "Mercury" sign that lights up when the unit is on.

This new V3 version also includes a specially designed 2-color backlight, easily switchable between bright white (4600K) and warm (3400K). This is the only viewer that has ever been available with bright white backlighting for truly accurate colors. This is highly recommended for BW slides and color slides shot outdoors--you will notice a significant improvement in color rendition. But certain slides, including those shot indoors, at dusk, etc., render better with warm light. You now have both options with the flip of a switch!

Fit and finish have been improved since the original version. The tripod mount is also now easier to use with a greater variety of mini/tabletop tripods.

V3 also features an enlarged backlight aperture to better accommodate extra large 52x52mm slides, renders the backlight diffusion panel deeper out of focus to eliminate any trace of dust, hairs, etc. that may get into the viewer. V3 also completely eliminates the need for a diffusion plate in the slide carrier, eliminating another potential source of dust, and lowering the cost of additional carriers.

V3 has, however, eliminated the option of a built-in phone viewer. We believe that our new, inexpensive, dedicated phone viewer is a superior option for phones, which have much lower resolution and different optimization needs for viewing.

This viewer comes with a bundled slide carrier for standard 80x132mm cardboard slides. Additional slide carriers for 3D World plastic slides, glass slides, RBT, and Realist slides can be purchased here. You should purchase the non-diffusion (standard) versions.

V3 also now comes with a soft lens protector.

Also see our hand-made, artisanal protective cloth bag for this Parlorscope here. This is highly recommended to keep dust away from the Parlorscope while it isn't being used.

A special EX version of this Parlorscope is available for customers with with eyesight that requires higher than +2 correction.  And if it still doesn't match your vision, you can measure the desired difference and we will send you a custom part for only the cost of shipping. We want to make sure each Parlorscope fits you perfectly.

Full documentation for this Parlorscope can be found in the Mercury Stereo User Guide, downloadable at the bottom of this page.