Re Samurai twin Z/Zl

[P3D Peter Homer <P.J.Homer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I tried to send a reply to this post direct to the person concerned as
>there did not seem to be any response or interest from the rest of the
>group but I got a "Domain Unknown " message so I thought I would reply to
>group after all.
>
>I saw your posting in the photo-3d digest 2235 this is an idea I have had
>myself but have not been able to locate a pair of Samurais yet. There was a
>gentleman at the Kenilworth convention of the stereoscopic society who has
>done this but I cannot remember his name . If I remember right he was Welsh
>and as Davies is a Welsh name so I wonder if perhaps it is you I am
>thinking of even though you live in Shrewsbury. Assuming it is not you I
>can probably get his name from the stereoscopic society journal I believe
>he is also a magician and perhaps a member of the magic circle . He did
>tell me that if I was able to get a pair of the cameras he could show me
>how to synchronise them electronicaly so they both worked off the same
>button. My own idea for this was to connect both cameras in series through
>the batteries so that there was twice the votage but also twice the
>resistance so it would come to the same thing. This should mean that the
>shutter buttons etc are in series giving a sort of AND gate, it would be
>neccessary to press both buttons but the shutter should not fire untill
>both contacts are made. This should also mean that the motorised zooms
>start/stop simultaneously to help keep them in synch. I had hoped that
>motors linked in series like this would work together at the speed of the
>slower but when I tried an experiment slowing one motor down the other
>actualy speeded up which would make matters worse.
> Originaly I had the idea that if anyone made a left handed conventional
>camera because of the asymetry of the lens placing in modern SLRs they cold
>be put together to give more normal spacing and hopefully a stereo
>viewfinder. When I first read about the Samurai Z and ZL I thought that was
>what they were,in fact the nearest thing to left handed conventional SLRs
>seem to have been the early Exactas with there left hand wind on . Later
>they changed to a  "right handed" version but as they ae not asymetric
>there is not much to be gained by combining two of them and you dont get a
>stereo viewfinder.
>
>                                                         P.J.Homer



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