My wife Robin also likes to take 3-D photos. Two of her favored topics are social photos and birds. So she can shoot from slightly closer, I made her a Z-bracket twin rig.



Here are the parts as they arrived.



There's space in the top for the trigger switch and batteries.



A dovetail slide cover conceals these components.



In the lower arm, there's space for spare memory cards.



Here it is, dyed black and assembled.

A few of Robin's pictures can be found on her website:
http://www.abignell.id.au/robin/mainpg.html

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[Updated on: Wed, 07 April 2010 15:49 UTC]

gibell:

For the final version of the bracket, I made the wall thicknesses 2 mm.

I' had made a rather minimal shelled-out version (wall thickness 1.3 mm) for dimensional refinement purposes a month before, which was alarmingly flexible, but the final version, properly closed and 50% thicker, is very rigid indeed. I would not subject the cameras to the amount of force needed to deflect the bracket by much!!

A screw, through the bracket into the camera's tripod mounting hole, holds it securely in place, although it is already positioned and lightly held by the close fit of the bracket.

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