[photo-3d] Re Lomo Action Sampler

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

Stephen Rumbaugh wrote on the 19 July 2000 05:49:10 -0700 (PDT)

>Does anyone know about or have a Lomo Active Sampler camera (www.lomo.net)?
>I understand it takes four photos (with four lenses) in succession... but
>I'm wondering about its stereo possibilities. Could it be set to take all
>four images simultaneously? For some reason, I am having trouble accessing
>the particular web page that describes the camera.

Which he then corrected

>Oops, I made a typo! That camera is called the Lomo ACTION Sampler.
>Steve
I managed to access this web page, the illustration shows a camera with
four lenses in two pairs above each other. It looks very like a camera that
was available in the UK under the similar name of Action Tracker, originaly
I think for about 17 UK pounds but they were eventualy being sold for about
five. The first time I saw a camera like this illustrated and described it
was Japanese and was called the Selby Revolver. This perhaps described the
shutter action, because the Action Tracker had a rotating disc with a hole
in it to uncover each lens in turn, the lenses were cheap plastic meniscus.
I do not think it would be easy to adapt for simultaneous exposure of all
four, or even two lenses at a time, but I did make some experiments with it
for stereo close ups with an extra lens across all four lenses. The small
lens seperation makes close ups the best choice and there is actualy a
choice of two because of the lens arrangment depending how you hold the
camera, 18mm in landscape and 12 mm in portrait format. My best close up
was a print of a cactus flower which I entered in a folio, I also tried
slide film but the single shutter/frame speed was not well suited to
slides. My intention was to mount the 1/4 frame images in viemaster reels
but they were still a little to large for that. The name Lomo is familiar,
did there not used to be a Stereo-Lomo camera?   P.J.Homer