Re: Novel Mounting Method

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> The bottom edge of the film gate could be modified so that the left gate
> has one "reference" notch, and the right film gate has two notches - a
> "near" and a "far" notch. The distance between the reference-notch and the
> far-notch would be the same as the lense spacing (eg: 70mm in a Realist).
> The distance between the reference-notch and the near-notch would be 1.2mm
> more than the lense spacing - 71.2mm (for the Realist format).

I'm confused.  How does this work?  Doesn't this put identical notches onto
every slide without regard to the image?  Seems like this would only result
in aligning the two "chips" at a fixed distance apart for all slides with the
only "correction" going on being inter-image distance differences in different
cameras (like the TDC Vivid being 65mm instead of 70mm) of the same format.

Seems that if fixed spacing would work, then Kodalux machine mounting would
work perfectly because I assume the chips themselves are machine aligned to
constant distances apart.

Did I miss something (haven't had my coffee yet this morning)?

Mike K.


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