Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] A few thoughts about flash
From: "dante@umich.edu" <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:11:29 -0500

Don't forget that the gunpowder goes inside the M6!

> Tim Atherton wrote and asked: ;-)
>>> Ted,
>> 
>> Could you explain to us again how you use flash powder with the M6...<<<
> 
> Hi Tim,
> Quite simple actually. ;-)  I get black gun powder, pour it into an old
> developer tray lined with heavy duty cooking foil and set it on a kind of
> easel so the flash will bounce off the ceiling when it ignites and before
> the ceiling goes black from the smoke.
> 
> This is a truly one shot exposure as we have to clean the ceiling after each
> exposure. ;-)
> 
> Now the tricky part is getting the wires imbedded in the gun powder so when
> I press the shutter release, the contact in the camera will send the signal
> to the contacts in the powder igniting it as the shutter curtain opens long
> enough for the flash to ignite, create the light flash and not an explosion
> ! :-) And inturn exposing the subject on film.
> 
> And that sequence of events is an old family secret not to be revealed for
> 50 years after my passing to the big darkroom in the sky.
> 
> So there you go eh? Nothing to it.
> ;-)
> ted
> 
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 4:59 PM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] A few thoughts about flash
> 
> 
>>> But I always try to make a shot with the light illuminating the subject
>>> before I use flash and if in doubt, out comes a flash, now I have the
> SF20
>>> that I've played with a bit, but it's still basically unused! :-)
>>>  But some
>>> day. ;-)
>>> ted
>> 
>>> 
>>  ;-)
>> 
>> tim
>> 
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