Strobe-light apparatus for use with photographic camera

Details Strobe-light apparatus for use with photographic camera Strobe-light apparatus for use with photographic camera

1978-03-08

1979-12-18

Griffin, Donald A.

G03B 1503

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041792050

ABSTRACT:
A compact, elongated strobe-light apparatus is provided for use with a photographic camera of the folding-reflex type having a collapsible viewing device. The strobe-light apparatus includes an attaching arrangement by which it can easily be mounted on and removed from the camera. The attaching arrangement includes a flash plug mounted near the apparatus's forward end and a pair of spaced apart flexible fingers mounted near its rear end for releasably gripping the rear end of the camera's viewing device. The configuration of the flash plug in combination with the "gripping" fingers permits the apparatus to be attached to the camera either by first sliding its rear end into engagement with a cover of the viewing device and thereafter rotating the apparatus to insert its plug into the camera's flash socket or, alternatively, by first snap-connecting its rear end to the viewing device's cover and then rotating the apparatus to insert the flash plug. Camming surfaces are provided to automatically effect the release of the grip of the flexible fingers in response to rotating the apparatus--front end first--away from the camera.

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Kalimar Strobe Advertisement, K-474 for Polaroid SX70 and Alpha Cameras, Kalimar Inc., Chesterfield, Mo.

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