freeze Frame
Toronto. The March, 1946 edition of Popular Mechanics has an article on a unique 35mm camera designed for the US Army’s Surgeon General. Around the camera’s lens is a flash tube that flashes a 1/25,000th second burst of light “brighter than the sun” to capture the photo of an open eye for example.
Three decades later such ‘ring’ flashes were common place for shadow free close-ups of all sorts of things. Thanks to my good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar, for discovering and sharing this piece of photographic history.
NB. The title of this post is a riff on that incessant and irritating TV advertisement by Oliver Jewellery, “I am the cash man”. The commercial encourages you to bring in your old and broken gold, etc. jewellery for money.
