Prontor-Compur
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A Prontor-Compur connection (also known as a PC connector, PC terminal, or PC socket) is a standard Script error: No such module "convert". electrical connector (as defined in ISO 519[1]) used in photography to synchronize the shutter to the flash.[2]
Etymology
"Prontor" has its origins in the Italian word "pronto", meaning ready (and was a leaf shutter made by Template:Interlanguage link).[3] "Compur" is derived from the word "compound" (the "Template:Interlanguage link" was a long-lived series of leaf shutters made by Friedrich Deckel).
History
The term is derived from brands of widely marketed photographic leaf shutters manufactured from the early 1950s by two distinct, but now defunct German companies. Template:Interlanguage link (which made the Prontor-S and Prontor SV models, amongst others) and Deckel (the Synchro-Compur model, successor to the Compound model).
Both companies' brands, Prontor (from 1953) and Compur (from 1951), shared a common 1/8"-inch coaxial connector for shutter–flash synchronization. This convergence of design is not as coincidental as it might first appear, as the Zeiss organisation held a significant shareholding in both of these companies prior to the introduction of the shared connector.[4] By the 1950s, Gauthier were manufacturing up to 10,000 Prontor shutters daily.
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References
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- ↑ ISO 519:1974, ISO 519:1992 (1992-11-25). Photography – Hand-held cameras – Flash-connector dimensions. Geneva: International Organization for Standardization.
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- ↑ History of flash photography. http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Flash_History.html
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