27 Oct
2012
27 Oct
'12
3:33 p.m.
At 2:29 PM -0700 10/27/12, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10/27/2012 02:07 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I have one of the cables with the two male connectors, it came with
my Graflex Super Graphic. I've been meaning to buy some bulbs, as
I'd like to try out the Graflex 'lightsaber' flash! :-)
Zane
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Photographic flash on newer (1950s and above)
cameras used
a tiny coaxial connector called "PC". But the OTHER end,
where it plugged into the flash unit often used a connector
that was virtually identical to a USA MALE mains connector!
If you wanted to fire two flash units at once, you could
make a cord with a female mains connector, and TWO male
mains connectors!!
THAT is not a safe cable to leave lying around.
...and large flash bulbs of the time used ordinary Edison screw
bases. Not something that you'd want to put into your bedside
reading lamp...
--Chuck