<p>Robert - thanks for your advice. I wasn't clear in my inital post that the reason I want to go as cheap as possible is that I want to buy 15 cameras to create a bank of cameras to create little movies like this for a kids photo workshop<br>
I am pretty old school and at one time thought about buying used manual film cameras and setting them up exactly as you say. Maybe there is a digital camera from 5-10 years ago that I could buy cheap and still have the control you describe?</p>