There has been an interesting focus lately on tools and work benches. I think it would be intriguing to have members show pictures of the weirdest or most unusual or most useless tools in their kit.
Do you have a convoluted screw driver or a set of misshapen pliers or a Smith chart slide rule or an abacus with a digital readout or a combination magnet/flashlight/scalpel? If so please share....
This is a piece of test equipment that I got when I owned a camera shop 40 years ago. This was old even then.
Before there were electronic xenon flash tube there were flash bulbs. While the response of the electronic flash is very rapid flash bulbs had to be ignited and they would burn to maximum brightness before dimming. There was also the problem of having the switch in the camera close for a long enough time period to get the burning of the bulbs fuel started. The bulb also had best hit maximum burn when the shutter was fully open otherwise there may be shutter blade shadows on the imageI still have the instructions for the meter and they say it can be used for the following functions:
Testing internal synchronized contact duration.
Determining the correct flash bulb for the camera under test.
Testing continuity in Flash Gun Cables and other electrical wiring.
Determining how many batteries should be used when side lighting or slave units are used.
Testing Batteries.
I also looked through all my other tools and found them all to look quite ordinary to me.
John
Fun Post Doug.
This is a piece of test equipment that I got when I owned a camera shop 40 years ago. This was old even then.
Before there were electronic xenon flash tube there were flash bulbs. While the response of the electronic flash is very rapid flash bulbs had to be ignited and they would burn to maximum brightness before dimming. There was also the problem of having the switch in the camera close for a long enough time period to get the burning of the bulbs fuel started. The bulb also had best hit maximum burn when the shutter was fully open otherwise there may be shutter blade shadows on the imageI still have the instructions for the meter and they say it can be used for the following functions:
Testing internal synchronized contact duration.
Determining the correct flash bulb for the camera under test.
Testing continuity in Flash Gun Cables and other electrical wiring.
Determining how many batteries should be used when side lighting or slave units are used.
Testing Batteries.
I also looked through all my other tools and found them all to look quite ordinary to me.
John
Fun Post Doug.
