1. Purchase one of the two View-Master cameras, the Personal or the Mark II, available through online auctions. Clean camera thoroughly and load with regular 35mm color film, available at drug and chain stores.
2. Shoot images as you would using a regular 35mm camera. Rewind the film and take it to a professional photo store to be processed. Ask them to process the film as unmounted slides in a continuous strip.
3. Use a View-Master Film Cutter, available through online auctions, to cut your images into small squares that can be inserted into View-Master reels. Remember that the Personal camera and the Mark II have their own specific cutters, and that one will not work for the other. Set aside your images in pairs.
4. Put on finger cots to keep from smudging your film. Use a View-Master film inserter to open the edges of your View-Master reels, which are now out of production and may have sealed with age. Slide one image into the first square on the reel and its duplicate into the square opposite. Continue inserting duplicate images across from each other until you have filled the circular reel.
5. Insert the reel into a View-Master and slowly click through the images by pulling the lever on the side. Remove the reel if it does not move smoothly or the images seem out of alignment. Adjust images or gently bend the cardboard part of the reel to straighten.
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