[photo-3d] Re: Realist and Flash

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George

The flash will only work at a shutter speed of 1/25s on my camera. I
observed this when I was first using my camera with flash bulbs in 1953.
The flash would not fire at any other shutter speed setting. I first read
about this in the pamphlet "The Stereo-Realist Guide", by Kenneth
Tydings, 1952, Chapter 8 - Flash Equipment And Its Use, pages 40-43. He
wrote "You must set your shutter at 1/25 second. This is the only shutter
speed setting which permits flash synchronization with any flash source."

Is there some way to modify my camera so that it will synch at any
shutter speed?

Rogers

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:36:59 -0400 "Dr. George A. Themelis"
<DrT-3d@xxxxxxx> writes:
> At 12:31 PM 8/26/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >My Realist f3.5, vintage 1952, has flash sync only at 1/25 second. Is
this unusual?
> 
> Yes.  You should be getting synch all the way to 1/150s. How do you
know that you only get 1/25s?
> 
> 
> George