P3D Re: Realist flash sync

[Linda Nygren <lnygren@xxxxxxx>]

Mark Bennett wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I first got my Realist I did a flash sync test and found that it
> sync'd up as far as it would go.
> 
> However, on my last night club shoot I had problems with the flash not
> firing, and not too sure why that was.
> 
> My best guess it that the film wasn't winding on 100% and the step was
> enough to de-sync it.
Are you using an adaptor, or do you have a filed-down bump? I have had
problems with each of these approaches occasionally (especially when
using a flash without a synch cord so that I had to use a second adaptor
as well). In the case of the adaptors, I thought it was just too many
connections so something wasn't making a good contact, when I would
intermittently have trouble with the flash not firing. Later the adaptor
gave out on me entirely and I ended up replacing it with another adaptor
which worked fine, so it may have been an internal contact that was a
problem earlier rather than contact between the flash/adaptors/shoe. I
later filed down the bump on my Realist 3.5, and now I generally use my
Olympus T-32 flash on it, but the flash contact is in not quite the
right place so that I either need to position the flash not quite
completely all the way onto the shoe (which works 99+ % of the time) or
I need to follow the excellent suggestion of another list member and put
a little spacer on the shoe to correctly position the flash. Perhaps
your contacts are off just a little, so they work most of the time.
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