"new" stereo cameras

[Michael Watters <wattersm@xxxxxxxx>]

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Mike K.

P.S. - I suspect that one also could buy twin'ed XA2 rigs that look great
       and work great from Mike W. if he's still in that business (??).  
       De-corrected into 1955 dollars, his price is "almost free".  :-)
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I haven't exactly been turning people away... :)

Interest in them seems to come in strong cycles.  Lately, I've had lots of
"interest" but none strong enough to actually buy one of the damn things. 
:)  Course, I haven't really been pushing them.  To be honest, it's gotten
kinda dull putting them together.  :)

My next goal (haven't had time to even crack the cameras) is to try making
a decent siamese stereo camera.  I've got ONE I made from a pair of $5
Argus C3's.  It works tollerably well, but I haven't taken time to fine
adjust the thing so the exposures are right.  Lenses for it (interchangable
35/50/100mm) should be just as good as an average 50's stereo camera.    
I'd LIKE to try building one either from a pair of XA-2's (doubtfull after
checking the guts) or a pair of Olympus RC-35's.  If the RC-35's could be
made to work, the result would be like a FED but with a full metered manual
mode (the way the thing should have been from the beginning).  I figure I
can probably mechanically link the shutter/apeture and focus.  Rigging the
1:3:1 advance is always the tricky bit though.

mike


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