Magnesium Powder Flash

[Bob Salomon]

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

Ever have a pocket full of them and have them go off there?

[Drew Wiley]

Anyone have an exposure estimate for a jar full of fireflies?

[goamules]

A lot of people that have never done wetplate instantly start asking how to do it, indoors. The answer is with a skylight. The root answer is: Use the sun, lots of light in the sun. Worry about the harder stuff later, like shooting in mines with strips of magnesium. Oops...

Think about all the movies you see with a flashgun (original term) being used with a wooden camera OUTDOORS! That tells you how "authentic" Hollywood, and our perceptions are.

[Drew Wiley]

I got over that phase when my brother and I stuffed a Halloween pumpkin with rifle powder and borrowed the well-diggers plunger and wires. About a week later we stumbled on a chunk of pumpkin nearly a mile away. Who would have ever known it was such an aerodynamic material?

[Tin Can]

Nope, I don't stuff my pockets, but I do know news guys did and heard some stories here

I have bought 100s of Sylvania M3 Blue Dot Camera Flashbulbs that were loose packed in bags and shipped USPS, none broke. Amazon is selling them. https://www.amazon.com/Sylvania-M3-B.../dp/B00CJPUBIU

Ever have a pocket full of them and have them go off there?

[Tin Can]

I Built the Largest Natural Light Wet Plate Studio in the US in Over a Century

A lot of people that have never done wetplate instantly start asking how to do it, indoors. The answer is with a skylight. The root answer is: Use the sun, lots of light in the sun. Worry about the harder stuff later, like shooting in mines with strips of magnesium. Oops...

Think about all the movies you see with a flashgun (original term) being used with a wooden camera OUTDOORS! That tells you how "authentic" Hollywood, and our perceptions are.

[Duolab123]

I got rid of all my flashbulbs. When I lived in the country I had a couple plastic buckets full of them, I stored them in an old tool shed. 25B bulbs make beautiful light.

[Tin Can]

I have a 50 amp Saltzman head with 25 Edison sockets and enough Sylvania #2 to fill it several times. http://www.meggaflash.com/index.php/...ment-flashbulb

But I can't come up with a good usage or place to use it.

It will be a big event

I got rid of all my flashbulbs. When I lived in the country I had a couple plastic buckets full of them, I stored them in an old tool shed. 25B bulbs make beautiful light.

[Ethan]

Anyone have an exposure estimate for a jar full of fireflies?

Well, how many are in the jar, and are they trained to flash synchronously?

[John Layton]

One warm summer night when I was 12 me and my best buddy wrapped a 10ft. length of magnesium ribbon around the big maple tree in the center of the local elementary school yard and lit one end...shined like the sun and boy did it ever attract attention!