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From: bonomi@ssc-vax.UUCP (Scott Bonomi)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Photo Flash Abuse (End of Subject)
Message-ID: <74@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 16:11:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 16:11:11 1985
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> > I once watched someone try to take a picture of the Grand Canyon.
> > When an onlooker pointed out that the picture would not be very
> > interesting due to the fact that it was 10:00 at night, the
> > photographer responed "But I'm using a flash....."
> > -- > > Erik Mintz
> Other stupid places where flash is used:
> * Evening football games (on televised games, you always see the flashes
>   coming from all over the stadium).
> * I was watching a multi-media slide show once and somebody was taking
>   flash pictures of the screen!
> 
> Steve Wolf					 Hewlett-Packard Company
> {ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof			  Fort Collins, Colorado

For those of you who do not know about the flash units of the
"instamatic" type cameras in addition to adding some light for close
shots, having a flash cube or flash attachment hooked up slows the
shutter speed by 50%, {from 1/60 to 1/40 as I recall}. This does
result in better results when taking pictures in the above mentioned 
conditions. It is probable that the people taking the pictures did not
know why their pictures turned out better, but they did. BTW, a dead
flash cube works as well as a new one for this purpose.

Scott

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