====== 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.