Flash guns - (camera flashes)

I once had a GF who would let me put a flash gun against her secret places.

In the dark - when I set the flash off - her whole tummy lit up from inside!!!

Sort of a 'light at the end of the tunnel' or maybe it's just 'a flash in the pan'

Apologies for the vulgarity

Interesting concept. Though the flash bulb is history, the sudden warmth against the labia I'm sure would have been pleasant

Way back in November I posted a response to this seemingly great idea. It was intended to be humourous and I never took up the suggestion despite having quite a few flashguns.

I thought I'd look at it again when Topswage made his contribution today.

I Googled 'flashgun burn' and came up with a hit on the Metz site which has made me think twice about the wisdom of this.

From the pdf of the user manual at http://www.metzflash.co.uk/pdffiles/45cl1_e.pdf - quote:-

"Do not expose the flashgun to dripping or splashing water"

"Danger - High Voltage"

"Do not place any light impermeable material on, or directly in front of, the diffuser. Ensure that the diffuser is always clean. The high light output of the flash will burn the material or the diffuser if this is not observed"

Now I wouldn't be worried too much about burning the diffuser but I would be worried about burning, in this form of play, the 'material' - and what about the splashing bit!

Caution?

Well, I placed a decent powered flash (sb-800) against my arm once and just fired the thing. I can confirm that there was a burnt hair smell in the area, but I got no burns at all.

About the shock hazard, I know little about electricity, but I do know that flashes do have a big ass capacitor inside (looks like an AA battery) that can release a four digit volt pulse. How dangerous is this if it gets wet? Well, the shock probability is small (additionally like cameras and lenses, high quality flashes are ready for bad weather), but in any case I would play it safe just in case, specially with cheap gear where liquid can pour in.

Wow i really need to try that taking photo's would be an great project

I saw a video of one of Harold Edgerton's strobe lights vaporizing a piece of newspaper at short range. Admittedly that was a big flash tube...

Still even with small flash tubes there is a lot of power being dissipated in a very short time. Also the flash tubes typically have 400+ volts across the tube and get a 4+ KV pulse to ionize the xenon gas to get make the tube flash. Getting hit with a photoflash cap is not fun with your dry hands. I would really not want to get nailed on my wet privates.

This give me some thoughts, and taste to try, with caution, my flash gun have a guide number of 40 ( a automatic mechanical position adjustment of the position of the lamp allows me to reach a guidenumber of 58 ), I will try first on my arm before to try it on privates places. Thank you for advices. As electrician-electronician and photagrapher's son I never think to try that.