Talk:Flash (photography)

message: Need an explanation for the guide number and for the different kinds of metering (TTL, ...).
I think the section on technique needs to be improved a huge amount.  Flash isn't the only technique available, and it does not increase the efficiency of the flash - if anything it REDUCES the efficiency as it needs to be spread over a wider area!  Tiberius47 06:51, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Could we make a new article on external flash units? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (talk) 01:46, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article 

message: IMHO, the greatest flash photographer was Weegee; he handled a flash-powered 4X5 as if it was a 35mm.  It would be great to find openly useable pictures of him with a Graflex with a flash gun next to an openly available flash picture by him.  I will search.--74.88.152.221 (talk) 01:29, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classic flash photography 

message: "Photographic lighting" is currently a redirect to this article, which is insufficient to cover the entire subject of photographic lighting. For example, professional photographers frequently use non-flash lighting sources in photography, such as in studio portraits. Photographic lighting even has a category, but no main, title, lead or "whatever you call it" article. The category can be found at :Category:Photographic lighting. If you want to edit the page "photographic lighting" that is currently a redirect into an article, see this page. -- Kjkolb (talk) 22:09, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article on photographic lighting 

message: In the flashbulbs section the srticle states, "Later bulbs substituted zirconium for the magnesium, which produced a brighter flash and tended to temporarily blind people."
This is unclear as to whether it's the magnesium or zirconium did the blinding.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.57.231 (talk) 01:23, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I too found that line, as it was written, confusingly ambiguous.  As magnesium is used in fireworks and stun grenades, I think it safe to assume that the writer intended to ascribe the blinding flash to it rather than to zirconium.  I have reworded the line accordingly for clarity. Hertz1888 (talk) 08:59, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is still confusing as to which the sentence means is brighter, so I have reworded it again.  It is the zirconium that was brighter, that is why the filling was changed.  I can find no evidence that zirconium filled bulbs temporarily blinded people any more than magnesium or electronic flash units, so I have deleted that claim.  If anyone can turn up a reliable reference that I have missed that this was so, then please restore the claim with the reference.  DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 18:40, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which is brighter? 

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message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowens_International
states that Bowens produced their first system in 1950.
This page states they came into use "late 1950s".
We are a bit short of references.
Bowens (a UK company) certainly seems to have been an early one, and innovated with the monobloc in the following decade.  Midgley (talk) 16:59, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First studio electronic flashes