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[Peter Homer <P.J.Homer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Shields wrote

>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!

I also have a Teco-Nimslo and actualy the close up atatchment as it came
was designed to use both central lenses and when changing from using the
outer to the inner lenses you have to expose a blank pair with the lenses
covered. I altered it myself so that the pair under the viewfinder are used
as the viewfinder then gives a truer picture of what the slide wil look
like.

>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.

Its true that 1 and 3 at 30 inches would still seem to be two wide (36mm)
for the 1/30 rule .Actualy the 12 inch close up is intended by Teco to be
used with a 36mm spacing which is definetly to much, I altered my 6 inch
18mm seperation 1+2 holder to take the 12 inch lens as well . You could do
the same for the 30 inch lens  that would be less than the 1/30 rule but
would probably be preferable.

>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.

Except  unlike a beamsplitter shot they will be untransposed and therefore
pseudoscopic.

>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.

That explains it ! ,my Teco is a UK version and although the literature
with it described a hole through which you poked a ball point pen to reset
the 18 frame counter I could not find one.
                                     P.J.Homer





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