At 09:34 8/5/02, you wrote:
John Lind recalled,"The "big boys" for camera
mounted flash were the Press 25 and 25B bulbs in polished bowls"
Right on - but the real big boys were the Press 40's,
(& 22's?)size of a 100 watt light bulb, with a screw base to match. Used
in the side mount Heiland and Graflex guns that adorned many Rolleis as
well as Graflexes in the late 40's and early 50's. Great for open flash on
major news items... train wrecks, etc. (Shades of Weegee, eh?)
Rick in VA-USA
Rick,
I'd rather think of it as "shades of Winston O. Link" than Weegee (a guy
who people either loved or hated). One must give credit to Weegee though
for being a superb marketeer, and for his opportunistic ability to be there
first, often before the police, fire, and/or ambulance crews showed up.
Note:
For those who don't know about Weegee, he was the die from which abrasive,
obnoxious motion picture news photographer characters were cast during the
1940's, '50's and '60's. Today's papparazi often stuff cameras in people's
faces at very close range. Now imagine it being a monstrous, large format
Graflex with a flashbulb that could light up an entire NYC block, leaving
subjects blinded and seeing colored spots for minutes afterward.
-- John
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