How to control the strength of a camera flash?

ian field

Joined Oct 27, 2012
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What???? Tindel's statement was spot on. Part of the purpose of this forum is to tell inexperienced members when they are venturing into a danger zone and it is not advisable to continue.
A camera flash unit can give a painful nip - but IWHT: anyone who managed to do themselves any real harm with one of those, is an expert candidate for the Darwin awards.

Full on professional photographic equipment is a whole 'nother matter though - some of the real big ones have a capacitor bank akin to a capacitor discharge stud welder. But that's leading to the sort of kit used on photo recon aircraft for night time photographing enemy positions.
 

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lethalpossum

Joined Nov 14, 2015
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if its any help, here is a typical camera flash circuit, the transistor oscillator on the left charges the capacitor up on the right, to to a high voltage,when there is enough voltage to strike the xenon, the neon lights up to let you know you can press the trigger to flash it.


http://www.talkingelectronics.com/projects/XenonFlasher/images/XenonCctOriginal.gif
It does help to visualize circuit. Out of curiosity I'll try to figure out where are each of these components on the camera's PCB.
 
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