P3D Re: Steve's twin rig

[JNorman805@xxxxxxx]

Steve Berezin writes:

<< I am working on a twin rig of 2 Canon Rebel Xs's.  When I put them on a
 camera bar they are of course a little hyper.  But the left side of the
 camera is a full inch shorter than the right, so had an idea of making a
 rig that would place one camera upside down cutting over an inch of the
 distance between the lenses.  Of course I will have to make room for the
 pop-up flash, but it will also allow the remote cord to be on the
 outside of the two cameras, also allowing less space between the
 cameras.
 
 Both cameras would face the same direction but one would be upside down.
 
 Is there something I may be missing? >>

That's an interesting idea, if you are sure you want to go with a 
side-to-side horizontal format.  But consider that the tripod sockets on the 
Canon Rebels are centered precisely under the lenses. Therefore, if you went 
with a vertical format, and mounted the cameras bottom to bottom by their 
tripod sockets, the lenses would be exactly at the same level.  The rig looks 
a little odd, with the body of one camera offset from the body of the other, 
but the lenses point in the same direction.  With a 12 mm thick wooden bar 
between the two camera bottoms, the interoccular distance is about 75 mm.  
That's a little hyper, but not too bad for any distance over 8-10 feet. 

Jim Norman