Re: Zeiss Ikonta Shutter - Rapid and Synchro - both have flash?

"Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>    That may be a modified shutter. Its relatively easy to modify any of 
> the old Compur or the Compound for X synch.

!! That is quite encouraging!  I will look for someone who will do that. I

actually use the 6x9 and a fill-flash would be wonderful. Recent picture 
made with it here: http://www.digoliardi.net/images/drake_m.jpg

> [...]
>    Most shutters with built-in flash synch were made after 1945. Before 
> that it was usual to use some form of solenoid. [...]

Those solenoids are ingenious things. An interesting application is to use

one as an electric remote release. Just wire a two-cell flashlight case to

it, press the on button.

Trivia side: I have a Printex flashe. It uses no battery. It uses a
magneto 
to fire the flash and a cam on the magneto's shaft trips a mechanical 
transfer to the shutter. Yup. I still use flashbulbs. Greatest things in
the 
world for off-the-camera huge light. See it here: 
http://www.digoliardi.net/printex/batt-free-flash.html