Re: What camera to buy?

[P3D Ilkka Alasaarela <Ilkka.Alasaarela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you all who answered me! :-) 
The sell-3D list was new to me and now I have joined it too :)
I think I'll buy both 50s stereocamera and 2 single cameras! 
Ricoh hears good :-) 


Dr. George A. Themelis writes:
>Don't worry. At 21 you still have an entire life in front of you. 
>But what kind of camera were you using and what kind of damage does
>it have?  I bet it was not a Realist ;)  These cameras last for ever!

Yes! I can believe it from the last discussion about the using Realist 
as a weapon ;-) The camera is two Smena (45mm(?)) cameras cutted off 
and glued together and the synchronisation of the shoots is made with 
aid of a string which releases both shutters at the same time... very
simple and cheap composition and it has worked well and gave quite
satisfactory pictures for couple of months :-) (The Smenas cost only
7$ per camera in St.Petersburg!!) But both lenses have problems now:
Other lens exposes two additional white spots to the film. I am not
sure, but I think that a little splinter inside the objective could
cause it and it could help if I cleaned it, but the other objective is
hard, it exposes too much light to the one corner of the picture, it
is about circle shaped area. And I have no idea how it can be
repaired! If you or anyone had any ideas, I would be glad to hear
them! :) 
...hey, if I go to St.Petersburg and buy some new Smenas and then 
change the objectives !

By the way, could anyone approximate the second hand price of Elmo
8mm 3d moviecamera! :-))) It would be more than interesting!!!

Ilkka Alasaarela

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