Supplies are limited, and when they're gone, they're gone.

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AG-1 "peanut" flash bulbs (clear or blue)

Choose clear for black and white, or blue for color. Of course, you can use blue for black and white too. These require a battery to fire.

These are a more powerful version of the AG-1 bulb. Choose these if they're recommended by your camera manufacturer, or if ordinary AG-1 bulbs don't provide enough light. Like standard AG-1s, these require a battery to fire.

Flash Cubes

Your camera uses flash cubes if the flash socket looks like this. The socket shape is a cross, and the pin in the center of the socket is round.

Flash cubes have electrical contacts. A battery in your camera provides the power to ignite the flash.

Flash Cubes

The original flash cube, four "peanut" bulbs arranged as a cube. Your camera automatically rotates the cube as you shoot pictures. The bulbs are blue, so OK for color film as well as black and white. Choose High-Power flashcubes if recommended by your camera manufacturer. High-power flashcubes produce significantly more light than standard flashcubes. All flashcubes require a battery to fire. 

Please note that, as these are quite old, some may fail. We have not had any customers contact us about flashcube failures, but it may be happening and we're just not being notified.

Please be sure your camera takes flashcubes, rather than Magicubes, 
before ordering. Click here to see what Magicubes look like.

Magicubes, also called X-Cubes

Your camera requires Magicubes (also called X-cubes) if the socket looks like this. The socket shape is an X with a square pin in its center. There are no electrical contacts, and the camera's flash socket has four studs (see detail below).

Magicubes do not have electrical contacts, and the camera does not require a battery for flash. 

Magicubes, also called X-cubes
An improved flash cube, four "peanut" bulbs arranged as a cube. Your camera automatically rotates the cube as you shoot pictures. They're blue, so OK for color film or black and white. Because they self-ignite when the shutter button is pushed, no battery is required.

Please be sure your camera takes Magicubes, 
rather than flashcubes, before ordering. Click here to see what flashcubes look like.

Box of three Magicubes, 4 flashes per cube
Product FLSH-MCUB
 

M2 and M3 flash bulbs for many 1960-era cameras, like the popular Brownie Starflash pictured. Blue bulbs give proper color balance with the color films of a half-century ago, and of course they also work with black and white. Clear bulbs are for black and white. A battery is required to fire the bulb.

Both have the same base and fit the same cameras. The M3 gives a brighter flash.

Package of 12 M2B blue bulbs
Product FLSH-M2B
 

Note: we have a small supply of clear M2 bulbs, "Bond" brand, in distressed packaging. Per package of 12 Bond M2 clear bulbs
Product FLSH-M2
 

We have a small inventory of M5 bulbs. Per package of 12. Product FLSH-M5
 

These blue color-balanced flashes fit into special flipflash sockets. You shoot six flash pictures with the bar inserted one way, then remove it and flip it over to shoot the next six. 12 flashes in all.

These were invented especially for the Polaroid cameras of the day, and since Polaroid films make ten photos per film, flashbars have ten flashes per bar. The fit into a special flashbar socket, and do not need to be flipped over. Blue for color or black and white film.

RARE AND UNUSUAL FLASHBULBS

The flashbulbs listed below are very rare. Some date from the years around World War II.
We offer them for the benefit of camera collectors who want to display them with their collectible cameras,
and as functioning props for theatrical use. 

The best source of flashbulb information on the Internet is Cress Photo.
Some of the information about bulbs given below was found on the Cress web site.

Sylvania/Wabash "Superflash" brand, medium screw base (the same size as a conventional lightbulb base). 20,000 lumens/second light output. Color temperature, 3800K. So-called "baby bulbs" designed to synchronize with between-the-lens shutters. These were the smallest press-type bulbs, marketed mainly to amateurs.

These are glass flashbulbs in good packaging. They only fit specific flashguns, so please be sure this bulb is recommended for your flashgun before ordering.

Sylvania "Superflash" brand, medium screw base. 30,000 lumens/second light output. Color temperature, 3800K. An all-purpose professional bulb.

These are glass flashbulbs in distressed packaging. They only fit specific flashguns, so please be sure this bulb is recommended for your flashgun before ordering.

Westinghouse "Speed Midget" brand, bayonet base, class F rapid-peak. 4700 lumens/second light output. Color temperature, 3300K. 1/200 second flash duration.

These are glass flashbulbs in good packaging. They only fit specific flashguns, so please be sure this bulb is recommended for your flashgun before ordering.

Sylvania "Superflash" brand, bayonet base, class F fast-peak. 5000 lumens/second light output. Color temperature, 3300K. 1/200 second flash duration.

These are glass flashbulbs in good packaging. They only fit specific flashguns, so please be sure this bulb is recommended for your flashgun before ordering.

Amplex-Norelco brand, bayonet base subminiature flashbulb. 6000 lumens/second light output. Color temperature, 3800K.

These are glass flashbulbs in excellent packaging. They only fit specific flashguns, so please be sure this bulb is recommended for your flashgun before ordering.