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

"Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>     Just never fire a bulb off in your face... YIKES!!
>     I agree about using solenoids for remote tripping. Silent and no
limit 
> on distance. Some shutters, particularly the Kodak Supermatic and Flash 
> Supermatic, will not trip at 1/400 with just two batteries and sometimes

> not with three. This was a problem in the old days and
extra-high-voltage 
> photoflash batteries were made for just this purpose.

Yup! I know. Radio-Shack, still offer the old 22.5V batteries that those 
units used. This link shows a camera that used the same.
http://www.digoliardi.net/ks6/

I had that set since 1968, and later sold that for a bloody fortune. 
Sometimes life it good. :)