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Your Family 2017-09-11
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Don't let other peoples limitations become your constraints!
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Funny.
I think my friend sold it a the recent Farmer's Market for a dollar. I'll need to check...
I think my friend sold it a the recent Farmer's Market for a dollar. I'll need to check...
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
I thought camera flashes sold for much more than that...
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
IF you can FIND THEM!!!lake_wrangler wrote:I thought camera flashes sold for much more than that...
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Ah, which one:
Or?
Or?
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
I remember those! My mom used to use those. Those things were even more of a consumable than film! Only four sides usable, bulb burnt out after one use, go through six, for a 24 exposure film...Atomic wrote:Ah, which one:
My mom used to give the used ones to us, and we'd play with them...
The name "Flash Cube" lent itself to a joke about English speaking people (Anglos - short for anglophone - were often called "blokes", in Québec): "What do you get when an Anglo gets an idea? A flash cube."
We didn't have a Polaroid, so i never saw the other type.
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Can you imagine a modern news room/press conference, but with ancient flash photography? After just the few minutes, the room would be so filled with smoke, that it would have to be evacuated...Dave wrote:
Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
I think that the flash bars were used on other kinds of camera, though I'm not certain.
Flash cubes came in two varieties: plain Flashcubes and Magicubes, which did not require batteries for initiation, just a little plastic tongue that pressed a lever inside the Magicube.
There were also electronic flashes to replace either type of cube, though those were never common.
I also have several bulb-type flashes, and even a few bulbs.
--FreeFlier
Flash cubes came in two varieties: plain Flashcubes and Magicubes, which did not require batteries for initiation, just a little plastic tongue that pressed a lever inside the Magicube.
There were also electronic flashes to replace either type of cube, though those were never common.
I also have several bulb-type flashes, and even a few bulbs.
--FreeFlier
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Flashcubes and Magicubes were proprietary to Kodak Instamatic-licensed cameras. As you observed, the cubes, although similar in design, were not interchangeable.
The GE Flipflash bar bar held 8 or 10 flashes in a vertical array, and was a retrofit for single-use flash bulbs. How did the Flipflash cycle the bulbs? By shorting across the now-spent bulb's contacts to route the trigger pulse to the next bulb in line.
The Polaroid Flashbar was a 10-shot proprietary design, like all Polaroid products.
Both the Flipflash and Flashbar needed removal and reinsrtion to use the scond half of the device.
The GE Flipflash bar bar held 8 or 10 flashes in a vertical array, and was a retrofit for single-use flash bulbs. How did the Flipflash cycle the bulbs? By shorting across the now-spent bulb's contacts to route the trigger pulse to the next bulb in line.
The Polaroid Flashbar was a 10-shot proprietary design, like all Polaroid products.
Both the Flipflash and Flashbar needed removal and reinsrtion to use the scond half of the device.
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Back then, round my parts, the name "Kodak" was synonymous with "camera", much in the same way as a Kleenex, and so on. So I saw plenty of flash cubes, but not so much of the other kinds. Though I think someone among my relatives (can't even recall if it was on my dad's side or my mom's) had a Polaroid. But I don't recall seeing those flash bars...
Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
I'd forgotten the flipflash, probably because we never had one. (Or the Flashbar, either.) Mom had a camera that used single bulbs, then another that used flashcubes, then magicubes, and her last camera had the built-in electronic flash.
Dad never had a flash until I gave him one for Christmas in the late 1990s.
I started out with an old viewfinder (not rangefinder) scale-focus 35mm that used the flash bulbs about the size of a golf ball, then went to a MInolta XD-11 with a Sunpak 422 electronic flash in the early 80's.
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Dad never had a flash until I gave him one for Christmas in the late 1990s.
I started out with an old viewfinder (not rangefinder) scale-focus 35mm that used the flash bulbs about the size of a golf ball, then went to a MInolta XD-11 with a Sunpak 422 electronic flash in the early 80's.
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Remember the slide-whistle-like whine of the capacitors as the early xenon flashes charged?
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
I would buy the cubes by the caseload- I learned how to crack them open and take out the bulbs. You then solder leads to them and use them to detonate black powder charges- a single AAA battery had the poop to do it! From stage explosions to several hundred pounds of common black, this was quite reliable... I only wish they still made them... regarding the flash channels- that was powdered magnesium they used to make the flash. I have worked with the shit- brutal- especially when some dibbles down your arm just before you shoot...
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
Well, the transformers in the circuit, but, yeah...AmriloJim wrote:Remember the slide-whistle-like whine of the capacitors as the early xenon flashes charged?
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
I remembered this week, that we used to call shutterbugs (people who like taking lots of photos) "Kid Kodak", so much was Kodak prevalent, back in my youth. My mom still uses the expression.
Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
This is the only forum I'm participating on where 'Thread Drift' doesn't foretell a crack in the planet.
I like em' & I learn stuff too...
I like em' & I learn stuff too...
Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
They're a bit like the Mark Twain story about the country boy who went to the county fair with a jack knife and traded up until he came home with a mule!TazManiac wrote:This is the only forum I'm participating on where 'Thread Drift' doesn't foretell a crack in the planet.
I like em' & I learn stuff too...
Somebody did that with a red paperclip, I'm told...
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Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
His ultimate aim was a house, if I recall...Atomic wrote:They're a bit like the Mark Twain story about the country boy who went to the county fair with a jack knife and traded up until he came home with a mule!TazManiac wrote:This is the only forum I'm participating on where 'Thread Drift' doesn't foretell a crack in the planet.
I like em' & I learn stuff too...
Somebody did that with a red paperclip, I'm told...
Re: Your Family 2017-09-11
I knew someone who traded a pocketknife up to a pickup. It took a bit, but he did it.lake_wrangler wrote:His ultimate aim was a house, if I recall...Atomic wrote:They're a bit like the Mark Twain story about the country boy who went to the county fair with a jack knife and traded up until he came home with a mule!TazManiac wrote:This is the only forum I'm participating on where 'Thread Drift' doesn't foretell a crack in the planet.
I like em' & I learn stuff too...
Somebody did that with a red paperclip, I'm told...
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