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[photo-3d] Ricoh Master/Slave connection?


  • From: "Jim Harp" <matmail2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [photo-3d] Ricoh Master/Slave connection?
  • Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:45:23 -0500

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> My reason for going Ricoh is to make a fresh start with sports action.  I will
> simply buy lenses for sports (say 135 & 200mm).  The other reason is that I
> have been lucky enough to find a technician who can do a top master/slave
> synch job which is something one only dreams about.

Haven't you been reading the list recently?  Twin cameras don't work for
action shots!;-) (I'm sure glad no one told Dave Klutho that...)  I'd
greatly appreciate more info about the master/slave modification you're
going to have done. I gather you're doing something more complex than the
"do it yourself" three wire parallel connection of the shutters that Ray
Moxom has described, and Sheldon, Gary Schacker and I are all happily using.
Are you going to connect the auto-exposure so that one camera's meter
controls both shutter speeds?  Are both cameras going to run off the same
battery pack?  Will your wiring allow you to easily vary your seperation for
hypers?  I'm finding that I get dead on shutter sync about 95% of the time -
in other words, for one or two shots out of a 36 exp. roll the shutters
might fire slightly out of sync.  Do you anticipate improving this
percentage?  Jim Harp