Re: Kodak HIE/HSI and flash bulbs

[Gary Beasley <beasleyglb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:32 PM 08/09/1999 +0200, you wrote:
>Gary,
>
>Thank you for the suggestion - unfortunately it is the flash bulb output in
>terms of Joules/Lumens/GN etc that is of interest.  I have a variety of
>bulbs ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous.
>
>Have alwaus harboured a desire for one of those bomb flashes that used to
>be used for night aerial photography :-)
>
>We have a new tethered helium balloon in the city centre here in Bristol
>that has unfortunately rekindled my interest in infrared night photography.
>Luckily I am too busy to investigate it further at the moment ;-)
>
Tell me, would a flash meter get a reading from a flash bulb? My Minolta
III flash meter will read through an 87C filter, maybe something like that
would allow testing a few bulbs for relative output and derive a useful
guide number from that.
Gary Beasley
http://beasleyglb.home.mindspring.com/

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