It’s Star Wars Day, so forgive me if I indulge in my favorite movie franchise for a moment and inform you – to my astonishment – that a Graflex flash was used as the basis of Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber in Episode One: A New Hope.
Well, okay, I say "basis", but if you take a look at the image below you’ll notice that the arm of the Graflex flash unit essentially is Luke’s Lightsaber. How cool is that?
