P3D Re: Techo-Nimslo and V-M flash

[SHIELDS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi!

I was fascinated to hear that you "totally love" your Teco-Nimslo
as I have just gotten a Nimslo and thought about having it modified.

What I have been wondering is that if the film advance is modified
to go only half the normal distance, producing a frame interleave like
the Realist, when the center two lenses are covered, what do you do
when you take a closeup using one of the center lenses in the pair?
Doesn't this cause a double exposure on top of one of your other pictures?
Of course I'm sure there's an answer--I'd just like to know!

Also, from what I've seen so far, I would prefer to use the #1 and #2
lenses for a portrait shot (I use a +1 closeup lens and shoot at 28 inches).
I understand the Teco-Nimslo uses #1 and #3 and has a distance of 30 inches
for this particular attachment. But if you shoot at 6 inches and 12 inches,
maybe you haven't done this.

I particularly like using the adjacent pair of lenses because my main stereo
camera is an SLR with a beamsplitter, and an adjacent pair from a Nimslo
mounts right into a standard 2X2 mount without any further cutting or
adjustment, just like a beamsplitter shot.

One more thing--when I spoke to the Teco-Nimslo guy, he said he wasn't 
modifying the frame counters anymore (said he never could, on the UK 
version). That sort of bothered me--I really like to know how much film
is left in the camera! I suppose if you've had yours two years and it's
Japanese, you do have a modified frame counter.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts of yours!

Mark Shields

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