Posted in photo-3d.

George Themelis

----- Original Message -----
From: "ron labbe" <ron@studio3d.com>
To: "3d-photo" <photo-3d@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:13 AM
Subject: [photo-3d] new Chinese MF camera


> Haven't really heard much about the new Medium Format stereo camera from
> China (3D World), but it's really incredible. Just got mine last week,
> the lenses are TACK SHARP! These are Hasselblad quality! The finder is
> quite good, but you can actually replace it with a Hasselblad finder
> ($150? on eBay?) if you want to upgrade... For $1500 this is an amazing
> deal, I think. The viewers are relatively cheap at around $35 each...
> and the rotary viewer at $600 is probably the biggest hit of all the
> stereo viewing systems I've ever presented. The viewers are easy, no
> focus, interocular... and the images can be spectacular.
>
> OK, it's not cheap to shoot 120 film, six exposures per roll. But it
> really doesn't get better than this.
>
> My advice is get one while you can... I got mine from Dr T.
>
> ron
>
> ron labbe
> studio 3D

George,
On your page at:
http://home.att.net/~sales3d/WMFcameraRedesigned.htm
you mention the following:

=== BEGIN QUOTE ===
A user (who got one of the new redesigned cameras - his
second camera!) wrote to me:

"As far as I can tell, the major difference in this version
of theTL-120 is that the light meter cell actually resides
in the camera body instead of in the prism. There is a
little light sensor on the back part of the metal frame that
holds the prism and it seems to point upwards into a
recessed hole that reads light collected through the prism.
Thus, in the older model, the light level LED indicator
would not work at all if the prism was detached. In the
current revised model, the light level LED indicators do work"

=== END QUOTE ===

I'm not sure if it was your intention, but when I read this
I expected the new metering system to be contained in the
body and functional without the prism. This is not the case.

As with my old camera, the LEDs on my new camera will light
up without the meter attached but what they have to say has
nothing to do with the scene the camera is seeing. You
might want to edit your page to make it clear that the meter
won't work without the 3DWorld prism being installed.
--
John Thurston
Juneau Alaska
http://stereo.thurstons.us

John Thurston wrote:

> George,
> On your page at:

- snip -
My sincerest apologies to the list and to DrT.

I bumped 'send' as I was readdressing my reply directly to
George. This is especially embarrassing as in a message
earlier this week I specifically asked people to send
messages of that sort off-list.

I can't retrieve my earlier, erroneously sent, message so I
will offer my apologies here, do my best to be better
behaved in the future, and extend the following offer:
If any list members are traveling though Juneau
this coming summer, drop me a note and we'll do
lunch - I buy.

--
John Thurston
Juneau Alaska
http://stereo.thurstons.us