Talk:Artur Fischer

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Re: "Dubious" for flash-light photography[edit]

His invention was a way of replacing the old burning-magnesium flashbulbs with a strobe light timed to activate when the camera shutter released. He does in fact have patents on this. Is it reinventing the light bulb? Sort of. Is it useful to replace a single-use exploding bulb with a strobe? Most definitely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.248.2.163 (talk) 23:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/business/international/artur-fischer-inventor-with-more-patents-than-edison-dies-at-96.html quotes him as “At the time [1947], you could only use a powder flash for interior shots, which you had to ignite with a cord,” which I think is highly dubious. -- MarkMLl 217.169.17.12 (talk) 08:59, 9 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

That was the technology. The photographer would set up the camera on a tripod, choose a small apperture, set a slow shutter speed, then ignite the cord, count to five and hope that the flash happened while the shutter is open. The people to get photographed needed to stay in place all the time with no movement.--Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 23:28, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]