It is an optical flash trigger. You plug this little device into your secondary flash and light from your primary flash would hit this device and it would in turn fire your secondary flash.
This is how we did off camera flash before radio triggers.
They were often nicknamed a 'peanut'
Seeing the above replies I would add to my earlier reply that I think the flat surface piece visible in the front is a 'photoresistor' not the old OCP71 phototransistor that I recall as well.
None too sure what it was I built back in the 60's in electronics class at school but it had a Photo Resistor..............just can't recall what it was for once finished ~ but it was nothing photographic
I think I have a couple that are identical to this, right down to the book style box as mentioned by @Suvv & shown in all these photos. The connector that's been left done up one the back of the peanut is just the same as the PC connectors used on old cameras for triggering flashes.It is an optical flash trigger. You plug this little device into your secondary flash and light from your primary flash would hit this device and it would in turn fire your secondary flash.
This is how we did off camera flash before radio triggers.
They were often nicknamed a 'peanut'
Half a crown! I can remember buying a plate of Spaghetti Bolognese in the Belsize Village Italian restaurant for 1/9d.I got this in one recently; love the price tag! Takes me back
Some of those listing really keep you guessing, but I rarely now bid unless I spot a few things I recognise. I suppose the hours of sorting through trying to work out exactly what it is has been worth the cost of a few lots, but it has to be a big collection going for very little for that to be the case.Some of the stuff I get at auction does evoke memories that for sure. Often I am bidding on a lot that says "box of camera associated stuff" so you have no idea what you are getting.
Don't open it, call the police and have everyone move at least 400 miles away! This is a soulcatcher accumulator, part of a lethal alien weapon that will move everything it's sensor field reaches into a netherland from which there is no return. It is used by the Tharg people of Hallumus 3 to enslave other races and species. Repent, the end is nigh, they have found us!!!!
Crumbs!........... haven't you been taking your medication
It's true, why will no one believe me?! I'm not mad, my mother had me tested.
Great........you don't run a motel near a lake do you
PS but we take this thread off course
Some of those listing really keep you guessing, but I rarely now bid unless I spot a few things I recognise. I suppose the hours of sorting through trying to work out exactly what it is has been worth the cost of a few lots, but it has to be a big collection going for very little for that to be the case.
Simply browsing the 'assorted', 'job lot' & 'unknown' hits can keep me amused for a whole lunchtime, and it sometimes even stops me looking at the lens specific searches
I've picked up a few simply to investigate an unusual item spotted in the photos, and sometimes the goods aren't worth the postage - but still the odds of winning are certainly greater than the lottery!I enjoy the occasional "lucky dip" as I refer to them. I just got a box from an auction house that only had one thing of value and I'll need to buy a charger for the battery so I can see if it works. I MAY cover the cost of the lot if it does.
The lot the 'peanut' came in looked like it wasn't going to offer up a great deal but there is a single camera in there that will sell for more than I paid for the lot. Luck of the draw.
It's the closest I get to gambling (the Lottery on the 5th rollover doesn't count in my book)
Half a crown! I can remember buying a plate of Spaghetti Bolognese in the Belsize Village Italian restaurant for 1/9d.
I also met my wife in Belsize Park. She's kept me for more than 50 years now, so her taste hasn't improved yet!Met the wife in the "Loft"
I also met my wife in Belsize Park. She's kept me for more than 50 years now, so her taste hasn't improved yet!
With topic drift that could easily take us to Fugazi...And that folks is how you get from Peanut to Primrose in a single page
I keep thinking of the line from Marillion's "Kayleigh" when I see mention of Belsize Park.
With topic drift that could easily take us to Fugazi...
Misplaced childhood was the last Marillion tour I attended, overall a disappointing album, nowhere near as good as Script for a Jesters Tear (which I still have the tee shirt for despite it being many sizes too small for me)
Coincidentally and in good Blue Peter style there's one I just finished making
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I still have some of Fishs' solo tracks on the MP3 player in the car, I generally skip them as I agree 100% with the above.Used to love Marillion but I realised, after he'd left, that it was Fishs' lyrics that I loved the most so gave up with the band...and subsequently with Fish because Marillion was greater than the sum of the individual parts.
Crumbs!........... haven't you been taking your medication
Yes, well probably not actual Vero but generic strip boardWracks brains....as to brand name of the 'bread boarding' circuit board...is that a bit of Veroboard all components mounted on/to???