Re: Cameras

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Cost is a factor.  What about using the RBT idea and putting two 
> point and shoot cameras ($100 price range) together??  Then, for a 
> better model, put two cameras like the Olympus 3500 together having 
> the two zoom lenses run off of one button as well as both shutters?? 
> That would be in the $800 price range (maybe even $1000).  Shutter 
> speeds and lens openings would be automatic.  I would even allow for 
> two flashes in the camera for good flash coverage.
> 

Although one can certainly use a pair of cameras which are twin'ed
externally on a common bracket -- and many have done this --  using
RBT's style of stereo camera generation probably doesn't cost as much
as it does because of the camera cost -- the bulk of the cost is due
to the custom-work that is being done to those cameras.  Imagine if
you wanted to build a RBT camera "clone", the two cameras started with
are the easy part!  :-)  As expensive as RBT cameras are, they are a
really good deal, IMHO, for what you get and the work that is done
to generate the product.  Lower price cameras (particularly if picked
to be easiest to RBT'ize) are used, prices certainly could be lowered
but probably only down to "very high" rather than the normal
"really really high" prices.  At the "bottom end" it becomes questionable
if the custom work and cost to RBT'ize it would be worth a thousand or two
of labor to RBT'ize $200 of camera.  I think RBT is coming out with a "low end"
solution, but it still takes more than most people's pocket-change.

I still would like a RBT S1.  RBT'ized high-end point-and-shoots. :-)

Mike K.


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