Show fi A LATE INVENTION IN FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPH L The Ge General eral El Electric Company announces this 1 J month an innovation in In flash photography a a. a shorter duration of flash i We usually associate the word instantaneous with all flashes We think of them as on the very instant instant instant inV in in- in- in w V stant no time duration Yet there is appreciable length of time to a flash flash flash- some one-fourteenth one of a second and one for special purposes almost half a f 6 second d Now comes out the inventive skill of a flash of on two one two hundredth of a second The claim of the ther r k is that now you have the timing in inthe the w. w flash not in in the shutter That heretofore the y mechanism did the timing Now the flash does it 4 So far the new wrinkle is ready for today today- April the flash is a little fellow called r a midget not developed yet for the bigger sizes It fills a need on the smaller cameras in ups close-ups and will stop motion by the flash alone at about r two one-two hundredth of a second ample for man many uses It does not supplant the bigger more powerful powerful powerful power power- y ful flash bulbs timed with but fits in nicely on amateur needs for ups close-ups within the home short distances when a mild light will suffice BK jV I. I It is in all these thousand and one wrinkles in inthe the hazes of hair splitting that the grief of the photographer photographer photographer pho pho- enters enters- there is this for one thing and S f that for another until headache is his regular rouS routine rou rou- tine He must know beforehand what the ci circumstances circum circum- i V ff stances will be what conditions will confront him f- f i and chose a flash accordingly In the big open hall r t lighted as usual the big lamp lampi close up in the average av av- av- av i. i era a home where a tin tiny lam lamp will ill do the trick this S 4 V little midget midget- jus us' us n n no more So goes it 1 |