"New Standard" at old electronic flashlight?

[AgX]

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]

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

 

[AgX]

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

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

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

 

[AgX]

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]

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