An instruction card for flash unit.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1935 - 1940
Materials
Card
Measurements
58 x 82 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525014.4
Summary
An instruction card for flash unit. The card is printed on both sides. On front is (in red) 'For Rollei cameras except Automatic Rolleiflex'. It then says' Micromatic Speed Flash This synchroniser has been carefully inspected and tested by 31' 'Made in U.S.A. by the Kalart Company under patents 1997315,1996592. Also British Patent no 425761, March 1935. Other Patents Pending'. The other side has instructions and at the bottom 'The Kalart Company, New York,N.Y.'
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986