Using A Flash Cube
| Field | What field the skill applies to | Photography |
| Went Obsolete | An approximation of when the skill was made obsolete | 1984 |
| Made Obsolete By | The skill or item that made this skill obsolete | Flash cameras with built in flashes |
| Knowledge Assumed | The knowledge needed to perform the skill | buy flash cube & insert into flash plug |
| When useful | When this skill could still be used in the real world | Never |
On the old Kodak cameras (35mm, 135mm etc), if you needed to take a picture with a flash you had to buy a flash cube. These cube had 4 flashes, one on each side. The flashes were not reusable. When you used them, they quite often burned and melted the plastic cover on the outer cube. They had a very distinctive smell also. You had to make sure you removed it if it wasn't needed or you would waste a flash for nothing.