Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "Flash photography used to be pretty wild" video.

  1. 21:25 Someone may correct me but weren't flash cubes used by crims to set off bombs for nefarious lock and safe-blowing type activities? I'm sure I read about them being used that way years ago.
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  2. 17:40 I lived and worked in country Queensland Australia in the 80s. Back then I used slide film most of the time, because, as you stated, it was cheaper. I'd buy my film and there would be a padded envelope for your film when you'd used it. You'd take that into your local chemist/pharmacy (drug store), and they would send it away to the Kodak lab in the city. A few weeks later, your processed slides would come back. The processing charge was included in the price of the film. Oh, I also had a pocket slide viewer and a slide projector to throw my prints up on a screen. After I'd looked at the slides, If there was an image worth spending 30 to 50 bucks on, I'd send it away to be enlarged into an A2-size poster print. Photography wasn't cheap so you had to be very judicious in your choice of photo. Sometimes you might shoot 24 - 36 shots and only get half a dozen decent photos.
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  3. 4:55 Oh, flash cubes. I miss them for some reason. Well, I also miss shooting with film.
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