Re: What to do with a Revere lens board reject?

[P3D Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  Have you had the
>shutter speeds checked on your camera?  I'm wondering of the most
>common of the better cameras (Realist, Revere, Kodak etc.), what
>percentage of them are shooting with fairly accurate speeds?
>Viewmaster and Revere shutters on my cameras are slow.  What about the
>'average' Realist?  Are these still running fairly on target?

  I have a Realist 3.5 (pre-double exposure prevention) and have
not had it tested.  I do mostly sunny-16 shooting without a meter
and only use 1/100 and 1/50. (I also shoot flash indoors but that
is off topic.)

  As far as I can see from looking at my slides (Velvia, K64, and
Sensia 100) the two shutter speeds are right on.

  I shot some slides with a Ricohflex Model VII (120 format TLR)
using sunny-16 and had under and overexposed shots. I checked the
shutter with a home-made kludge tester (scope and phototransistor)
and found my 1/100 to be closer to 1/70, and 1/50 to be off as well.

  Since my 1/2 stop Ricoh shots were obviously overexposed I would
say that my Realist is 1/4 stop or less off of correct speed.

Greg Erker



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