{"id":22553,"date":"2022-01-28T01:04:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T05:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22553"},"modified":"2022-01-28T12:55:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:55:36","slug":"four-flasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/four-flasher\/","title":{"rendered":"four flasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22554\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Four-flash-Graphic-Popular-Mechanics-Jan.-1941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22554\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22554\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Four-flash-Graphic-Popular-Mechanics-Jan.-1941-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">article for four flashes on a Speed Graphic camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0&#8230; 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 \u00a0special synchronizers for a Graphic camera to quadruple the light output over a single flash unit.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rube_Goldberg_machine\">Rube Goldberg idea<\/a> may have never taken off since this is the only place I saw such a gadget.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to George Dunbar for sharing this tidbit of history with us. The post title is a riff on the once common phrase &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vocabulary.com\/dictionary\/four-flusher\">four-flusher<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0&#8230; 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 \u00a0special synchronizers for a Graphic camera to quadruple the light output over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/four-flasher\/\">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":[1944],"tags":[14,755,4026],"class_list":["post-22553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-film","tag-flash","tag-graphic-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553","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=22553"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22574,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22553\/revisions\/22574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}