Re: hacker helping

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Oh God, protect him from whatever he is about to do!!!!.
>>This sounds very much like a disaster waiting to occur.
>
>Exactly.  When he asks about keeping the lens focus in synch, he is tacitly
>admitting he has never refocussed a stereo lens.  And that part is child's
>play compared to the rest of the project.
>
>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.

  What cameras are these BTW.

>(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.)

  That's sad and funny at the same time.

  The parts are still probably worth $50
on ebay (broken cameras get pretty high
bids there either due to people who know
how to fix them or those that think they
do)

Greg