I liked the Magicube -- no batterys required. Pretty cool idea a
mechanically triggered flash. I bet there is a way to rig those to make
booby-traps too, in case you want to protect your OM's... <g>
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
on 1/21/03 8:00 PM, OM4Ti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at OM4Ti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Then Kodak came out with the flip flash giving you eight shots. Polaroids
> used the FlashBar 10 on the SX-70 cameras with five flashes per side giving
> you enough flashes to match a Polaroid film pack
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "R. Jackson" <jackson.robert.r@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] dim bulbs
>
>
>> Yeah, but they weren't the same as using a strobe, were they? You'd get
>> one of those long, narrow boxes of bulbs and each one was a little
>> explosion you'd caused. They were hot and when the plastic ones came
>> out, deformed, after you'd used them. When you looked at your photo it
>> was your mastery of elemental fire that illuminated the faces in the
>> image you'd struck. Not to get all prosaic about it, but it was really
>> something to use a flashbulb. Even flash cubes were cool in their own
>> way. I remember seeing my first Kodak instamatic and thinking, "Man,
>> you can fire off four in a row on this puppy." And you could. ;-)
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 07:08 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>>
>>> Let's have a show of hands... Who out there has even
>>> seen a #6 (GE/Phillips) or #26 (Sylvania) flashbulb?
>>> Me, me, me, me.... I've even used them.
>>> OK, you two - have you seen one within the last 20 years?
>>> Well, no.....
>>> Bill Pearce
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