Re: photo-3d email

[P3D <PgWhacker@xxxxxxx>]

  Among others, Olympus has a dual cable release.  Very sturdy.  I'd 
recommend it.  Still made;  designed for use with a camera/bellows 
arrangement.  Took 4 - 5 weeks to arrive from Adorama, you can get it 
more quickly directly from Olympus.

    One of the two arms (tentacles?) has a tip that is adjustable -- you 
can screw the release wire in and out, which in effect lets you advance 
or retard the shutter release time of that side.  This feature is 
especially handy for flash shots with an OM2 twin rig:  you set one 
camera to on manual at 1/30th second.  The second camera is set on auto 
for TTL flash exposure.  The cable release lets you trigger the manual 
camera first, and its shutter stays open while the second camera handles 
the auto exposure duties.  Works quite well.

   The one drawback to the Olympus dual release is its short length, 
about 14 or 15 inches.  Short enough that it's a real stretch to get each 
tip snaked around and lined up for a bottom-to-bottom twin-rig, and even 
with gentle indoor use you have to build a frame to keep the release tip 
from twisting and bending off the shutter release button.  Still, not 
hard or expensive to do:  I built the frame with $6 worth of metal 
brackets and a few nuts and bolts.

  Oh yeah, both cable release tips are _tapered_, cone shaped.  I almost 
bought a used Pentax dual cable release without realizing one of its tips 
was _untapered_, cylindrical, and wouldn't fit my camera.


>Does anyone know if a stereo cable release is available?  I'm not sure
>if that's the correct name.  I'm trying to sync two SLR cameras together
>
>(press one button so both cameras go off at "reasonablly" the same time)
>
>Any help will be appreciated.
>
>Tom.










Greg Kane
Denver

PgWhacker@xxxxxxx





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