Flash gun


flash gun

n1. (Photography) a type of electronic flash, attachable to or sometimes incorporated in a camera, that emits a very brief flash of light when the shutter is open

Flash gun

A 1940 photographic textbook (Gilford G. Quarles, Elementary Photography, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1940) describes the flash gun as a photoflash-lamp synchronizer for setting off Flash lamps simultaneously with the opening of the shutter. Later, when an electrical switch for triggering the Flash bulb was included in the camera itself, a flashgun was generally considered a Flash lamp made to be electrically connected directly to the camera.