Show A LATE INVENTION IN FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY The General Electric Company announces es this month an innovation in flash photography a shorter duration of flash We usually associate the word instantaneous with all flashes We think of them as on the very instant instant instant in in- stant no time duration Yet there is appreciable of time to flash flash flash- one-fourteenth one of length a some a second and one for special purposes purposes almost half a second Now comes out the inventive skill of a flash of two one-two hundredth of a second The claim of the is that now you have the timing in the flash not in the shutter That heretofore the mechanism did the timing Now the flash does it So far the new wrinkle is ready for today today- April the flash is is a little fellow called 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 two one-two hundredth of a second ample for man many Y uses It does not supplant the bigger more powerful powerful powerful power power- 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 It is in all these thousand and one wrinkles v in inthe inthe the hazes of hair splitting that the grief of the photographer photographer pho pho- enters enters- there is this for one one- thing and that for another until headache is his regular rou rou- tine He must know beforehand what the circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances will be what conditions will confront him and chose a flash accordingly In the big open hall lighted as usual the big lamp lampi close up in the average average average av av- av- av e home where a tiny lamp will do the trick this little midget midget- jus us' us erluff n no more So goes it |