This Is How an Old-Fashioned Flashbulb Explodes in Slow Motion

Wednesday 20 March 2024, 20:10 by Elja Trum | 2,481 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

These days, you can use a flash head thousands of times, but flash heads used to be single-use. You had to replace the bulb after every flash. In this video, you can see how a flashbulb ignites in slow motion, along with plenty of interesting information about how flash light works.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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