Possible Clues:

• Outmoded camera accessory
• It may help photograph very smart tulip
• Photographic light source
• Fancy part of the tulip looked good on camera in the past
• Could one throw light on future developments?
• Ostentatious sob recalled as something generating red eyes?
• Little time to cry about source of light for picture
• Foreign leader and whip in the plot employed by one of those old ones possible taking a shot in the dark
• Camera accessory
• Fancy garlic, perhaps? This may have gone off with exposure