Can soft/pictorial lenses be used on stereo cameras?

[8x10 user]

I swear I saw a soft focus stereo camera one time a few years back.

[Bill_1856]

The triplit lenses used in Realist and cheaper stereo cameras such as Kodak in the 1950s were (unintentionally) soft focus, even when stopped down to f:8. Check out some of the slides from those days and you'll see what you're missing.

[Steven Tribe]

You are right of course Jay. But as they are viewed in pairs, the general idea was to save on material and have the registration of the 2 "halves" approximately correct - ready for contact printing. You would have to make a special viewing system for 8x10 stereo pairs , for example, as Victorian and newer system used much smaller images.

[Jay DeFehr]

That makes sense, Steven. Thanks for the clarification.