[photo-3d] Re: Realist

["John Goodman" <jgood@xxxxxxxx>]

Dr T wrote:

> There are those who hate the Realist and those who love it...

Despite the number and length of recent expressions of Realist 
love and loyalty, I wonder why the Revere is so seldom 
mentioned as a basic stereo camera offering excellent 
performance at a minimal cost. Not much more expensive than 
a 3.5 Realist, it has fine 3-element lenses, an easy-to-use 
rangefinder, spirit level, auto shutter cock, is user-friendly and 
well-constructed. While I know that the mind and heart behind 
the camera are more important than the machinery, are there 
agreed upon limitations or deficiencies that put Reveres below 
3.5 Realists in the pantheon? If so, what are they? With less 
than 25,000 made, a clean Revere still goes for around $175. 
Are they harder to repair? Less reliable? Vignette badly when 
stopped way down?     

John Goodman