"New Standard" at old electronic flashlight?

AgX · Mar 16, 2014

I got me a National PE-3056 flashlight from 1978. One of those early autoexposure electronic flashlights. It got three aperture settings and as extraordinary feature a sensor assembly that can be taken off and used as on-camera sensor with the flashlight used off the camera.

The light got a sticker and the manual a printing of:

"New Standard - N"

Any idea what this refers too?

bdial · Mar 16, 2014

As a guess, possibly the transition from ASA and DIN to ISO film speeds?

AgX · Mar 16, 2014

No, that was much later. And the flashlight got concentric ASA and DIN scales at the dial.

Mustafa Umut Sarac · Mar 17, 2014

Flashlight from 1978
[video=youtube;131boBAsu1A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=131boBAsu1A[/video]

AgX · Mar 17, 2014

Sad enough mine only makes white light...

But about the same time or somewhat later there were lights that got exchangable coloured fliter screens.

AgX · Mar 1, 2020

Meanwhile I got another National flash, a hammerhead one, with this enigmatic sticker.

"New Standard" at old electronic flashlight?

AgX

bdial

AgX

Mustafa Umut Sarac

AgX

AgX

Privacy & Transparency

Privacy & Transparency