Re: Upside down camera (digest 1600)

[P3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE:San Smith says you can gain the forehead advantage by turning a SLR
upside down. Of course this will work for a Revere 33 TOO! I just looked
though mine..but the horrow of what it sould do to my mounting scheme,
since the upside down images than need transposing have now been
compromised as to left and right..are they back to normal??? Does my
notch no longer mean RIGHT? The thoughs dismay me!
Sam can research this for me?
I think Sam, the hacker has chosen a good name since he saws cameras in
half to make stereos. (I hape I have this right?)
What bothers me about the RBT and melding, is that it seems to me  they
just grab two lenses marked 50mm or whatever. Two zooms are an awful
thought as they surely don't agree on a given marked postion. All the
early '50s stereos had matched focal lenghts as did the preceeding
generation cameras (short of box atereos). This was not done by picking
the label but by matching on an optical bench or similar means. This
required more cost as getting pairs not that easy. As I said once, Leitz
on just the screw mount RF had seven cam types just to match "50mm" lens
whose real design was 51.1 mm and might vary from 47mm to 53mm? BobH
(This entertainment is what made camera clubs exciting..arguing in the
corner!)


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