{"id":18959,"date":"2020-11-27T04:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=18959"},"modified":"2020-11-25T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T23:18:59","slug":"every-one-should-have-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/every-one-should-have-one\/","title":{"rendered":"every one should have one …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leitz CEYOO (left) and CTOOM in original Leitz boxes<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. … said the late Ted Shepherd. So I agreed to buy his flash gun (CEYOO) with its folding plastic base (CTOOM) at our November 21, 1978 meeting in the NorthYork Public Library. A few days later, I sent a cheque for $7.50 off in the mail. At the time of the sale, Ted was president of the Toronto chapter of the PHSC.<\/p>\n

Later on, I bought other flash guns and brackets, including the boxes and test light shown here. The CTOOM held the flash to the side of a Leica. The CEYOO flash took #5 bulbs (or smaller with an adaptor). A folding metal “fan” reflector was removable to make the flash more compact when not in use. The CEYOO was sold before inexpensive electronic flash became common-place. The synchronized shutter speed was slow with regular bulbs. Special FP (focal plane shutter) bulbs had a longer burn period and allowed a faster speed to be used.<\/p>\n

Both flash and bracket are well made and solid – typical Leitz. The CEYOO used a 22.5v battery (modern batteries are a bit too thick apparently) and a capacitor \u00a0(replacement was once available from Leitz) allowing shots even with a nearly exhausted battery. In later years the CTOOM was metal, not plastic. The CEYOO flash was sold throughout the 1950s while the bracket was sold a few years later and lasted to about 1963 in the retail shops. Without a bracket, the flash was mounted on top of the Leica in its accessory shoe.<\/p>\n

The photo (and those of many earlier posts) was taken with an Apple iPod Touch (8 mp) equivalent to a 35mm lens under a wide spectrum LED light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. … said the late Ted Shepherd. So I agreed to buy his flash gun (CEYOO) with its folding plastic base (CTOOM) at our November 21, 1978 meeting in the NorthYork Public Library. A few days later, I sent a … Continue reading →<\/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":[1944],"tags":[2004,2005,61,63],"class_list":["post-18959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ceyoo","tag-ctoom","tag-leica","tag-leitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959","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=18959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18963,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18959\/revisions\/18963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}