Re: hacker helping

[Sam <3dhacker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom wrote:
>
>I just don't have the heart to tell him he's about to ruin two perfectly
>good cameras. (His cost: $140.)  I did urge him to start slow before he
>took on such a big project.  His response was that he would write with
>further questions.
>
No harm in telling him the inevitable. You may want to give a big
disclaimer with any info you give out with hacking, and make sure they are
honest about their own abilities.

Of the many who claimed to have started their own stereo projects in
response to my own pages, I know of NONE who have actually succeeded ( they
just stop writing back!). Greg and Tom are two who have succeeded on their
own, which is why I didn't include them in my survey!


>(I once got a gallon zip-lock bag from a guy who had wanted to make a
>siamese stereo camera.  The bag contained a pair of Pentax K1000's, both
>completely stripped of all parts.  The fellow had clumsily chopped them
>both in half.  All the teeny little screws, mirrors, lenses and parts were
>just dumped in with the bodies.  I swear I wept when I saw how he tortured
>those two cameras.)

Then my basement would REALLY scare you. It's not that I don't finish true
projects, I just buy a lot of cameras to see their potential, and end up
leaving them in various pieces if I lose interest! I expect to have a big
sale of the untouched ones, as I'm running out of space down there! My LAST
(hopefully) stereo SLR project should reach the testing stage next weekend.
After that, it's an RBT or NUT'N !!!!


Sam