P3D Re: Inexpensive slide-film-camera twinning. ?

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> Could anyone recommend a cheap 35MM camera (cheap = ~ $40) suitable for
> twinning/slide shooting? As for quality, I've got a $50 Kodak cameo which

I've twin'd a pair of Pentax Spotmatic's (SP-500/1000).  They were about 
$30 each including their normal (55mm f2.0)  Pentax lens.  Add-on lenses
(135mm, 28mm, etc) are very inexpensive as well. Your basic screw-mount.

Putting the cameras one in front of each other with a flash going
through the pair (backs open), a bit of tweeking can get the shutters
reasonably well matched with a mechanical dual-release (mine has the
ends "tweekable").

> 
> How much does a Realist weigh? Since I want to do stereo photography while

Less than the twin'd spotmatics.  Fer shure.  :-)

> on holiday, and living out of a backpack, weight is a consideration as well. 
> I try to travel as light as possible; also don't want to have it be a crisis
> if the camera gets stolen, or I drop it off a cliff. 

Screw mount cameras can be a very thrifty SLR way to go, but light
and portable it isn't.  Not even close.  

A pair of disposables would be more like it for that application.  Or
even one and do the cha-cha.

Mike K.


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