[photo-3d] Re: twinned Olympus XA's

["Ray Moxom" <raymoxom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Shields wrote:
> I just won the auction for my second XA. I received the twinning
> bar from Paul Talbot last week.
>
> I plan on a simple approach--just press both shutter releases
> at the same time. I've heard that wiring up two XA's doesn't
> work too well because there are uneven exposures between left
> and right cameras (I use slide film), shifting from camera
> to camera so that changing the film speed setting doesn't help.
> I have also heard that this can be avoided by linking the wiring
> at the shutter electromagnet level, ..................

Mark, there was a lot of discussion about this on P3D some time ago, a look
in the P3D archives might be worth a try.

Also, download Part 1 of 'Coupling Olympus XA Cameras' that was published in
the September 1999 issue of '3D Window'. Download it from the Newsletter
section of the SSCC website at: http://www.sscc.asn.au/sscc/

Ray Moxom