I recently purchased a Graflex/Wollensak Speed-O-Scope Shutter. Can anyone please tell me exactly how and what this unit is used for? It looks to be complete to me. Any help would be great.
I recently purchased a Graflex/Wollensak Speed-O-Scope Shutter. Can anyone please tell me exactly how and what this unit is used for? It looks to be complete to me. Any help would be great.
These were not used for a photographic purpose but were a training device. An image or a word was flashed and the user asked to identify it. One use was training potential gunners to recognize aircraft types. (Shoot the bad guys, not the good guys.).
Hi:
I picked one of those up myself thinking it would make an auxiliary shutter. I have it on my desk at work and click it from time to time for transportation to my happy place -- now I know that it is military I'd better take it home!
Anyhow mine has a school district engraved on it. I can't really imagine a school district using it for that. It must have had some other purpose as well? Plus it has "T" and an aperture?
Dean
Dean Lastoria
They were used in tachistoscopes, for teaching speed reading.
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