Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1365

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  >I am here to correct... The Realist has x-synch at all speeds.  In plain
>  >English this means that you can use a modern electronic flash with a 
>  >Realist and set it at any darn speed you like.
~ 
> I did buy a reel 3d adapter and am waiting for the film processing
> for some test shots using an electronic flash. I am now more hopeful.

One can test one's camera for flash sync as well as for shutter
sync (more or less) by testing with your camera's back taken off.  This
has been mentioned on the list a few times (including by me).  

Attach your flash -- point it and the camera at some subject not far from the
front (say, a few feet) and look at the back of the camera -- concentrating 
at the "back" of where the two lenses are.  Trip the shutter and *see* 
if the shutters are open at the flash time for that shutter speed.  One can
try this at any shutter speed and/or f-stop.  If at the fastest shutter speed
one still sees the flash through both lenses (say, with the full-open f/stop),
then the two shutters probably are reasonably synchronized with each other
as well, or so it would seem.

It's an cheap and easy test that works for testing flattie 35mm cameras shutters 
too.   

At very least it's a cheap confidence builder.

Mike K.



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