Magnesium Powder Flash

[LabRat]

For the "historically correct", wet plate and flashpowder were different eras...

Steve K

[Two23]

For the "historically correct", wet plate and flashpowder were different eras...

Steve K

Yes, Brassai was using magnesium flash powder in the 1920s shooting dry plates with his Voigtlander Bergheil.


Kent in SD

[Duolab123]

As long as you are getting crazy, try 800 mesh Aluminum and ammonium perchlorate. This is the stuff, when diluted with rubber that goes into sub launched ballistic missiles. All you need is a spark. The shock wave might tip over your camera and give your subject a nice tan.

Just get a flash holder, put 1 25B bulb in the holder and super glue another half dozen to the igniter bulb, you will be seeing spots for days.

By the way, I was reading in an old Pop Mechanics photo book, supposedly you're to ask your subjects what color spots the see after a flash shot. If white they didn't blink, if red that means they had their eyes closed . I've got to try that sometime.

[Drew Wiley]

First of all, don't be surprised if you get a visit from the FBI after ordering such chemicals. I'm not kidding whatsoever. The guy down the block they called on a few years ago was in fact making bombs in his basement, and I don't care if he's locked up in the nuthouse or a Fed Pen, as long as he never gets out. Second, in this State at least, anyone in their right mind would instantly call 911. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fire damage, along with substantial loss of life, has occurred from less deliberate mistakes than something like this. All it takes is a little dry grass and windy conditions exactly like what is happening right now to create a catastrophe. Over 200 local fires had to be put out the last 4th of July just from firecrackers, which are themselves illegal. Model rocketeers have to join a club which fires from a bare beach toward the ocean.

[Jody_S]

If you want to know what it feels like to set yourself on fire, take up welding.

[Ari]

Ethan, I think the consensus is "Maybe not a good idea to try it...".

[Tin Can]

I am a welder. One of my co-workers taught me by example how welders often set other welders on fire as a practical joke

Crazy David was a great teacher, he could fix anything. He learned in USSR and our employer bought his freedom. He was welcomed in Skokie

If you want to know what it feels like to set yourself on fire, take up welding.

[Eric Woodbury]

Could have said joules as well.

Don't forget the erg.

[Ethan]

Ethan, I think the consensus is "Maybe not a good idea to try it...".

Yea, I'm starting to get that impression...

[Tin Can]

I watched a bunch of YT and still not doing it, one showed how to set A powder off with one drop of water...

I do like flash bulbs and am very careful with those

Yea, I'm starting to get that impression...