article for four flashes on a Speed Graphic camera
Toronto. … or more than one way to skin a cat (sorry cat fanciers). In the February 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics, a filler article suggests using two special synchronizers for a Graphic camera to quadruple the light output over a single flash unit.
This Rube Goldberg idea may have never taken off since this is the only place I saw such a gadget.
My thanks to George Dunbar for sharing this tidbit of history with us. The post title is a riff on the once common phrase “four-flusher“
