Re: Which camera is best for close-up?

[P3D <norml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are going to use a slide bar, a Realist with the double
exposure adaptation is perfectly suitable for close-ups.
Calculate the interocular distance and then make a double exposure,
covering one lens each time and sliding the camera appropriately.
You are going to be sliding the camera in such a way as to reduce 
the interocular distance.

This has the advantage of producing full-Realist-frame close-ups 
that are compatible with all of your other Realist slides.

Norm Lehfeldt


>I take closeups of flowers with an SLR and a macro lens. I don't
>think a Realist format camera is suited for serious closeups,
>because the lens spacing needs to be much less for closeups.
>
>Look into the Teco modification of a Nimslo camera. It is used
>with slide film, uses just two of the four lenses per stereo
>view, and takes 36 pairs per 36 exposure roll. Cost, I think,
>is $145 for a modified Nimslo, and maybe $36 per set of 
>closeup lenses.
>
>If the flowers can be brought indoors, you might also consider
>a slide bar and an SLR with macro lens.
>
>Another excellent choice is the Macro Realist, but they are awfully
>expensive. A friend who owned one and I spent an exciting afternoon
>photographing the inside of a beehive. Only time I ever won a first
>in a club contest. Unfortunately, Howard passed on and his collection
>of stereo cameras was sold.
>
>All the information you need to check out these ideas sits in the
>archives. However, if you are no better than I at searching the
>archives, send me a note off line.
>
>---
>                           Stereo                Stereo
>George Gioumousis           /---\        |       /---\ 


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