[photo-3d] Re: Those sleepy Ricohs (and RBT-X2s)

["Ray Moxom" <raymoxom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Harp  <matmail2@xxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 17, 2000 9:27pm
Subject: Those sleepy Ricohs

Boris Starosta said:
> The damn things go to sleep constantly.

and Jim Harp said:
> My solution to this is to figure out aperture and shutter speed,
> and then turn the cameras off. I take my time adjusting the
> composition and focus and then turn the cameras back
> on just before shooting - the cameras remember the last shutter
> speed that was set and I have 30 seconds to shoot.

Even with the RBT-X2, which is based on the Ricoh KR-10M (XR-10M in USA)
SLR, I find that I have my right index finger constantly switching the
cameras on and off to keep them awake. It becomes an automatic action after
a while. However, to be doing it with two cameras at the same time is a bit
much, hence the 4 wire modification.

As far as the "dreadfully bad internal display" that Boris refers to, I
fully agree but do not have a solution. The display is on in low light, off
in very bright light when captured light illuminates the display and it is
also off when the small amount of captured light entering the display area
is insufficient to display the exposure settings.

Ray Moxom



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