Gigalumens - a cavers secret,

[shiboleth]

These bulbs require next to no power and are used to take pictures of Nasa's rockets on take off :naughty:. a fantastic gallery of images below. I think Mac could shed some light on these, eh?

http://www.meggaflash.com/Rumbling Falls Cave chamber shot with meggaflash pf330 flashbulbs.htm

 

[jugg2]

They make big lumens no doubt, but they can only be "flashed" once.... Too bad! That would make for some sick lights haha!

 

[Burgess]

Hey, i'm old enough (56) to have actually USED these little gems !


Back when AG-1 flashbulbs would cost me 40 Cents apiece !

:sigh:


That's IN ADDITION to my film and processing costs.




Thus making any Indoor Photography quite an expen$ive hobby for a pre-teen.


Then, imagine getting a "No-Flash", cuz' of a Bad Connection "somewhere".
:hairpull:

There goes another frame wasted, from my 12 exposure roll of 127 film.



My camera, during this early phase of my photography career ?


On Christmas morning, 1962, i received a Kodak Brownie Fiesta !

Hey ! Remember the little tags, which read: "Open Me First !"




Gee, perhaps my comments here may be more appropriate for our Dark Room forum.

lovecpf

 

[fyrstormer]

I remember using magnesium flash pods when I was a little kid. Thankfully, my parents weren't so unbelievably cheap that they held out on buying a decent electronic-flash camera until the 90s. In retrospect, it seems like the sort of thing they would've done.

That being said, I didn't get a good camera of my own until I started collecting pretty titanium flashlights. :shakehead Someday I've gotta go back to playing with R/C cars, they're so much cheaper...