P3D Re: Looking for hyperstereo camera suggestions

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>My brother has been hired to shoot a hyperstereo
>shot of an orchestra in Poland. The images are then
>to be converted to a red blue anaglyph for the album
>cover. He was wondering whether anybody had some
>suggestions on suitable 2 1/4 format cameras to sync.
>Right now he's considering Russian or Chinese cameras
>because of their inexpensiveness. He mentioned the
>Holga ($25) in particular. I asked him about scaling
>problems but he was sure that could be fix in Photoshop.
>
>Any thoughts?

  You could probably use most any 6x6
TLR, new or old. If the lighting is
good so you can stop down the lenses
(to say f8 or f11) then a camera with
a 3 or 4 element lens should do fine
(Lubitel, Ricohflex, Yashicamat,
Diacord, Autocord, Rolleicord etc).

  If the lighting is dim and you
need to shoot at f2.8 or f4 then
you probably need better lenses
(Rolleiflexs with Planar or Xenotar
lenses, or Mamiya TLRs with 80/2.8's,
or various MF SLRs.)

  You might get good enough sych
by firing the two cameras with two
cable releases, one in each hand.
I've done this several times for
fireworks and it works well if you
quickly press and release the buttons.
If you are trying to do flash photos
then it likely won't work.

  Is there a reason why 35mm SLRs
won't work?

Greg E.


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