How rare is the Tilt-A-Mite II?

Helge · Aug 11, 2020

I’ve been looking for a while and it doesn’t seem to come up for sale at all.
How many here actually have one?

Also, both the original and II seems to have been made in Japan by a generic/unnamed manufacturer.
I’ve seen at least one “clone” of the original, and some non tilt bulb flashes that has very much the same look.
How many tilt bulb flashes are there? And are there good clones of both Tilt-A-Mite I and II?

Edit: One is the Gold Crest BC-7 which also seems to share a lot with the Nikon BC-7.
Same with Accura BounceMaster

AgX · Aug 11, 2020

Even the primary version I only came across once.

Dale Raby · Dec 5, 2020

Over the years, I've run across them in the camera section of junk shops. Mostly they worked fine, but not always. I think I have a couple of them up in the attic somewhere. Might find them at some point. If I do, I'll probably put 'em up for grabs.

Helge · Dec 5, 2020

Dale Raby said:
Over the years, I've run across them in the camera section of junk shops. Mostly they worked fine, but not always. I think I have a couple of them up in the attic somewhere. Might find them at some point. If I do, I'll probably put 'em up for grabs.

Be sure to tell me here. I’d still like one.

It’s main draw is that it also takes flash cubes and tilts them.
But it’s also a nice clean compact design.

AgX · Dec 5, 2020

Helge said:
Be sure to tell me here. I’d still like one.
It’s main draw is that it also takes flash cubes and tilts them.

We had a tilting flash by eurapean make too (Agfa). Thus for this feature there is no need for a super rare flash of unknown japanese make.

Helge · Dec 5, 2020

AgX said:
We had a tilting flash by eurapean make too (Agfa). Thus for this feature there is no need for a super rare flash of unknown japanese make.

Does it take M3, AG 3, PF 1 (let alone cubes)?
The clam shell Agfa I’m thinking of doesn’t tilt back, only forward.
Am I missing something?

The Ikoblitz 5 is fine, but they are flimsy and fiddly and only takes two types of bulb.

The other Tilt-A-Mite clones are rare as hens teeth or has a proprietary shoe (Nikon).

I’d love to hear of a European tilting, multi bulb compatible flash.

AgX · Dec 5, 2020

Helge said:
I’d love to hear of a European tilting, multi bulb compatible flash.

I do not think there is a european tillting flash that takes more than one type of socket. But there were lose socket adapters for this

Helge · Dec 6, 2020

AgX said:
I do not think there is a european tillting flash that takes more than one type of socket. But there were lose socket adapters for this

Is there a European tilt flash besides the Ikoblitz 5?
And is there an adapter for M3 bulbs that fits a bayonet socket?

AgX · Dec 6, 2020

The Ikoblitz is not from Agfa but from Voigtländer.

Helge · Dec 6, 2020

AgX said:
The Ikoblitz is not from Agfa but from Voigtländer.

Zeiss Ikon.

AgX · Dec 6, 2020

Yes, of course. But what I tried to say was, that I already hinted at another such flashes from Agfa.

Concerning adapters and bayonet socket bulbs. Those are that old that I never came across a single bulb with such socket, let alone with an Edison one. Also M3 bulbs are already scarce.

Helge · Dec 6, 2020

AgX said:
I trued to say, I already hinted at another such flash.

I have all of these:
http://www.rolandandcaroline.co.uk/agfaflash/agfaflash.html
any particular one you are thinking of?
I even have an Agfa with a swivel dish, no capacitor’n straight battery that takes bayonet bulbs.

AgX · Dec 9, 2020

Helge said:
Is there a European tilt flash besides the Ikoblitz 5?
And is there an adapter for M3 bulbs that fits a bayonet socket?

It does not come to my mind. The only adapter that I am sure of without consulting old catalogs again is one that adapts those bulbs with glass-base and contacts at the narrow sides to a bayonet socket.
But I never came any single-bulb adapter across yet.

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