Dynalux Flash Help Needed

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Evening

I have a question regarding my Dynalux Flash which I inherited with my granddads Kodak Retinette 1b.

I'm trying to work out how to get to the battery so I can change it and see if the flash works.

Can anyone help?

I have tried Google without any luck

Thanks
 
Can you post up a pic of the flash?
 
Will do it will be tonight when I get home thanks
 
Downton Mini said:
Evening

I have a question regarding my Dynalux Flash which I inherited with my granddads Kodak Retinette 1b.

I'm trying to work out how to get to the battery so I can change it and see if the flash works.

Can anyone help?

I have tried Google without any luck

Thanks
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im wondering if it could be batteryless ??

google turns this up

"German retail list price equivalent is $6. Dynalux. A battery less, magneto-operated flashgun similar in design to several late-lamented U.S. models attracted ."..
 
donut said:
im wondering if it could be batteryless ??

google turns this up

"German retail list price equivalent is $6. Dynalux. A battery less, magneto-operated flashgun similar in design to several late-lamented U.S. models attracted ."..
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That quote from a 1957 Popular Photography article? I'm at a bit of a loss to work out how it could be triggered from the cameras of the day... but then I've never understood flash at all!
 
ChrisR said:
That quote from a 1957 Popular Photography article? I'm at a bit of a loss to work out how it could be triggered from the cameras of the day... but then I've never understood flash at all!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking how would it work without power!
 
If it's really fired from a magneto, then there must be some rotating magnets inside the flashgun. I can only assume that there must be some spring-loaded, manually cocked, clockwork mechanism in the device somewhere and that somehow the shutter firing releases it. How the timing between the bulb firing and shutter release is synchronised is anybody's guess.
 
That would be fired by the X-sync lead at either 1/30 or 1/15 depending on the camera flash compatibility.

I still have my wife,s Halina paulette and bulb flash that she used in the 60,s and 70,s and I have posted pictures from this combo on the forum.

Jan my wife also always used slide film:eek: and she made some cracking photograph,s.
 
Forgot to say there is a leitz flash very similar to the Dynalux that you have.


800px-E._Leitz_Wetzlar_flash_-_1.JPG
 
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