P3D Re: Loreo/Argus Macro?

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

Rod Sage writes:

>It would seem to me that a person could remove the mirrors (crack them
>off) a Loreo/Argus, put a magnifying lens in front of the two original
>lenses, and have a very inexpensive macro camera.

No need to crack them off the mirrors can be removed without that and I
have already done this because I had the same idea although I realised that
as  Gabriel replied.

>Very good idea but I don't think it would work. The reason being is
>(if I remember correctly) the lenses are not in-line but rather
>pointing slightly outward relative to each other. They're arranged
>this way so that in combination with the unique film transport the
>images get transposed. By doing this, the images don't have to be cut
>and transposed after developing.

My idea was to remove and reverse the lens holder as well so that the
lenses are converging which would seem usefull for extreme close up and
perhaps as with a reversing ring on SLR that will make the lenses close up
as well. The cameras construction may still help reduce keystoning. This is
more involved than just removing the mirrors and I have not got around to
trying it yet.  P.J.Homer



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