From: Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Date: 12/23/02-01:13:59 AM Z
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Steve Bell wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> as i mentioned a while back, i have acquired a Graflex 4x5 camera. i've
> been using it a lot and i really love it. last night i turned on the TV and
> there was some old movie on, and there was a scene with all these
> papparazzi. they all had cameras that look like my Graflex. so i got this
> idea, which i'm sure has been done, but i don't really care (i've decided
> that it doesn't matter to me if my ideas have been done before, because
> they most likely have been, but not by me. so there. ha). i want to do some
> imitation papparazzi shots. and i think if i get a flash for my Graflex,
> you know, the one with the big handle and big bulb and everything, i think
> that would be perfect.
>
> so my question is, how available are these flashes? i feel like it probably
> wouldn't be terribly hard to acquire the actual unit, but maybe getting the
> bulbs might be difficult? do they use bulbs that are still manufactured?
> will i have to find someone's back stock auction on ebay?
Steve, you might consider putting the money instead into a modern flash of
some sort, the kind with rechargeable batteries. My recollection (tho I
could be wrong on this, it's been a while) is that you can have
freestanding flash without a hot shoe. After all, the reason flash bulbs
became obsolete is that they're a pain. you have to keep changing them.
Also, a disposal issue. Yes, you'll look more like Weegee, or whomever,
but unless you're planning self-portrait, it doesn't help the photograph.
The *effect* of flash bulb can probably be gotten by directing the flash
(card, reflector, whatever) and other adjustments. (There's probably even
a photoshop filter -- FLASH ! If not, why not?)
cheers,
Judy
>
> also, any tips or thoughts on the papparazzi idea would be welcome.
>
> cheers,
>
> Steve
>
>
> --- Steve Bell
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> --- "We have...become our own thought police; but instead of calling the
> process by which we limit our own expression of
> dissent and wonder 'censorship', we call it 'concern for commercial
> viability'." -David Mamet
>
>
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