Edmonton Photographic Historical Society

  The Canon RS60-E3 is a remote trigger on a two foot cable that not only duplicates the shutter button two-step detents (focus, followed by triggering the shutter when pressed all the way down) but adds a “lock on” sliding action for long time exposures.   It uses a 2 mm phono plug. If you look closely there are two notches in the case (one next to the jack, one at the bottom end). Not visible in this image is a plug receptacle at the bottom end. If you wrap the cord around the unit and plug the end in the bottom you get this! “What cameras is the remote compatible with?” you ask. Depends on who you ask and where they are. Here are two sources from Toronto Canada, one source from the United Kingdom, one source from the United States and finally one from Edmonton Canada.   Compatible with EOS Elan II/IIE, Elan 7/7E, Digital Rebel/XT, Rebel Ti/2000/G/GII/X/XS, IX/IX Lite. —Vistek, Toronto, Canada Compatible with G10, G11, G12, G16, EOS Digital Rebel series, 60D, 70D, Ela...

  There are several ways we could go when discussing this Bell & Howell Model 256 8mm projector . We could start with a short history of what Bell & Howell did for movies and go on with how this projector is outstanding for the time it was made. We could start with how this projector was saved from being thrown away, and then ended up in my hands. Or we could simply dive in and see where we end up!      Bell & Howell started back in 1909 when a projectionist stopped in to a machine shop to check on something. It so happened a much younger machinist trainee was there and they met each other. The projectionist was Bell; Howell was the machinist.        At the time there wasn’t a standard for motion picture film, let alone equipment. Bell&Howell not only set the standard—settling on 35 mm film stock—but made a film perforator to make the film their cameras and projectors would use. Motion picture film stopped being different and the i...

The Contax TLA20 is a 1980’s Through The Lens (TTL), Low and Hi Power Manual flash.  It works particularly well on Contax 139, 137, RTSII, 159MM, 167MT and St cameras. It’s head doesn’t tilt or zoom. The TLA20 had a wide flash panel that allowed the flash to cover a 24 mm lens. Although there is space in the case for this panel, it didn’t have it when I acquired it.   z The back has a slightly puzzling exposure guide at the top. There is a switch OFF/Lo/ Hi/Auto bottom right. The Lo and Hi are manual power settings. There is a test light bottom left. The flash foot has two extra contacts (other than the standard hotshoe middle contact (of course the side of the foot has the final contact for the hotshoe). One of the two contacts tells the camera the flash is powered up so the camera will set itself to the sync speed. The camera displays it is ready to fire in the viewfinder by switching to the sync speed and displaying a red lightening bolt.         Th...