P3D Re: Twinning

[JNorman805 <JNorman805@xxxxxxx>]

GCCampos recently asked what we all use for twin rigs and suggested he's about
to try Canon Rebel G's.  I say if you can pick up a couple of Rebel X's
(without the built-in pop-up flash) you might be better off.  I regularly use
a twin rig made of Rebel X's mounted bottom to bottom on an "I" shaped wooden
frame of my own construction.  A Vivitar 285 flash is mounted on a cold shoe
screwed into the top cross-piece of the wooden "I".  The flash is wired via a
Vivitar remote sensor cord to the hot shoe of the left side camera.  Synch is
generally (about 95 per cent of the time) perfect for both cameras.  The
cameras are fired simultaneously by way of two Canon electrical shutter
releases spliced into a single button.  I use Canon 35-80 zoom lenses.  The
zoom is linked by way of toothed industrial belting glued to the zoom barrels
of the lenses, which meshes with similar belting glued around the of two nylon
roller bearings fastened by way of quarter-inch hexd-head cap screws into the
front of the "I" frame.  The roller bearings are positioned between the two
lenses, one above and one below.  The teeth on the lens barrels are kept in
firm contact with the teeth on the roller bearings by way of a large rubber
band wrapped around both lenses.  When one lens is zoomed, the other follows
right along.  I've tried Realists and Kodaks, and I have to say, I LOVE this
rig.  Jim Norman 


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