In article <4he6s8$68a@agate.berkeley.edu>, cris@ced.berkeley.edu says...

>For about a year I've been taking photographs from kite-lofted cameras
>using a Yashica T4. This is great fun and I've had good luck with the
>T4 (though I often get flare when shooting toward the sun). However
>I'm starting to yearn for a wider field of view (in the 20mm to 28mm
>range) so I'm in the early stages of building an SLR-based rig.
>Ideally the camera I use will be light, have a trustworthy meter (as
>I'm not there to compensate), an integral motor advance (single shot),
>an electronic shutter release (fire shuttler by closing a circuit),
>and sharp wide-angle lenses available.
>I currently have Nikon gear including 20-mm and 24-mm AI lenses but
>understand that they will not work with matrix metering on the new
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How about a Nikon EM and MDE winder - light, small, cheap, and it
uses your current lenses (just prefocus the lens and seal up the
VF eyepiece).
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