Re: Super Ikonta Shutters (flash synch)

"dadiOH" <dadiOH@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> jjs wrote:

>> Were X (electronic) flashes available back then?
>
> When is "back then"?  The first I saw and used were ponderous Heilands
> with large and heavy wet cell packs in the very early 50s.

That is before my time in the profession, but I was referring to when my 
camera was made, the 1930's.

But speaking of big flash units, I did lug about the huge, blue  plastic 
Singer Graflex battery pack, then later the "lightweight" 510 volt battery

(which was really something like sixty 9V batteries wired in series).