{"id":11912,"date":"2018-06-26T07:13:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T11:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11912"},"modified":"2018-06-24T17:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T21:41:39","slug":"a-flash-in-the-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-flash-in-the-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"a flash in the pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11913\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heiland-flash-ad-LIFE-Feb.-19-1951.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11913\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11913\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Heiland-flash-ad-LIFE-Feb.-19-1951-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LiFE Feb 19, 1951<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. For Christmas 1951 I received the gift of a Brownie Hawk-eye kit with a camera (box), a roll of 620 \u00a0film, <a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=10616\">flash \u00a0bulbs<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=8777\"> flash-gun<\/a>, dry cells for the gun and a plastic protector to hang over the flash-gun in case a bulb exploded. There was a wave of amateur cameras with synchronization for flash bulbs in the late 1940s and 1950s and lots flash-guns to choose from like this Heiland model.<\/p>\n<p>The built-in flash mentioned in the ad is the synchronization to shoot a flash bulb at the right time as the shutter opened. This was before the days of built-in flash that we see today, even in smart phones. The flash bulb was the obvious solution to indoor photos with the<a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11291\"> abysmally slow<\/a> media of the day. Flash bulb popularity lasted about two decades before cheap electronic flash-guns were offered and \u00a0later built in flash (first bulbs, then electronic) Most modern day digital cameras and smart phones have built-in electronic flash and many high end cameras can take external electronic flash too.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to George Dunbar for mentioning this wonderful LIFE magazine ad for a Heiland flash-gun accessory (<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=2EsEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">LIFE February 19, \u00a01951 issue<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. For Christmas 1951 I received the gift of a Brownie Hawk-eye kit with a camera (box), a roll of 620 \u00a0film, flash \u00a0bulbs, flash-gun, dry cells for the gun and a plastic protector to hang over the flash-gun in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-flash-in-the-pan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[738,2014,878,425,102],"class_list":["post-11912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera","tag-accessory","tag-flash-bulb","tag-flash-gun","tag-life","tag-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11912\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}