[photo-3d] realist and flash

[CanterMike@xxxxxxx]

In digest 215 H C "Bob" Maxey writes, in part:

<<... I agree with TO SOME EXTENT. It also is highly
dependant upon the type of flash and type of reflector. A dear departed
expert stereo photographer loved trains and took more rolls than I can
remember inside Amtrak, Union Pacific, other train cars and all of them
were taken in relatively tight quarters and covered distances from
relatively close-up to the end of the cars. Perfect exposure - extremely
even.

This had much to do with the fact he always used Realist Flash Units and
Flashbulbs.

Electronic flash is ok, but use [sic] old timers prefer flashbulbs and
flashguns because they often yield a better result. >>

Having not been there to witness the Master at work, and learn from his 
technique, I am unprepared to dispute your logic.  All that I can say is that 
the inverse square law works for me, and has never let me down.  Photography 
(ALL photography, flat as well as stereo, chemical and digital) is as much 
art as science.  Sometimes it is better to NOT know too much...as a friend of 
mine used to say, "it will work if you let it".....


Mike Canter