Re: ricoh closeup adapter

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Wow.  Good job.  My estimates were 24 inches and 18 inches.  Pretty close!
>(I didn't mention that because the focus on this camera appears off.  I
>have four of these cameras here, and none of them is in shooting condition.

  Too bad.

  Naturally parallax becomes a problem with
closeups. For my Stamens photo I used the
center post of my tripod as a "Paramender"
and raised it up after focusing and framing
to move the taking lens into the right position.

  If you ever get CU lens sets for fancy TLRs
(Diacord, Autocord, Rolleicord/flex) with Bayonet
accessories you find that you get two lenses.
The one for the viewfinder has prism built into
it so that the camera framing stays semi accurate.
Very cool but these sets aren't cheap from what
I've seen. (Won't work on ricohflex's since the
rotating lenses would point the finder prism in
the wrong directon.)

  Once I got my Bronica S2A SLR (for a bargain
price) I lost interest in TLR CU shooting.

  Though I recently started thinking about it
for doing stereo macro-ish shots using two
TLRs and a 50% reflective mirror. But I have too
many projects on the go to do much about that
now.

Greg