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Re: Digital cameras and flash
I have borrowed and have been playing with a Nikon Cool pix 990, with
detachable flash which I agree with is essential. The Nikon can adjust to
the type of lighting, there are menu choices that let you pick the light
source.
In fact there are a lot of menu choices which is why I am still playing with
it.
I plan at some point getting together with Tony T, so we can play with it
together. I do think the potential is there, as evidenced by the web site
that was posted here, but for me anyway, it is a long process in terms of
camera adjustment, in particular with this camera which has a myriad of
choices. The beauty is you know right away had poorly your doing, rather
than shelling out and waiting to find out you suck.
This has been a great thread. Kind of like reading my mind.
Dave
David J Rossi
Warwick RI
chezsous at home_com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay-Scott Moylan" <moylan at emi_net>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Digital cameras and flash
> Something I learned from photography pros in working on my
school's
> yearbook, is that you can eliminate the need for flash with digital
cameras.
> We use a high-end Sony Mavica MCV-90 to produce a yearbook with all color
> photos on our color laserjet. I was told by the pros at a nearby pro
> photography shop that digital cameras need far less concentrated light
than
> film cameras. We invested in a set of portrait lights for the school. We
> have two main frontal lights to eliminate shadows on faces, etc. and a
> smaller side light for making hair shine. The key point is that they all
> use regular 250 watt incandescent bulbs. I think that the instant strobe
> quality of the flash we are accustomed to can be replaced by a rather
> inexpensive mini-system to light the fish for digital cameras. I can tell
> you that the yearbook photos this year rival the normal ones provided by
the
> professional studio that used to take our yearbook pictures.
>
> Jay Moylan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BizEcology at aol_com>
> To: <KillieTalk at aka_org>
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 4:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Digital cameras and flash
>
>
> > <<That said, I do kinda wish I had bought my digital camera with a hot
> shoe for
> > an external flash. Taking fish pictures with a single flash firing 1"
from
> > the lens makes avoidance of reflections quite difficult.
> >
> > Doug Dame>>
> >
> > Doug,
> >
> > I have, in the past, used optical slaves for additional flashes. You
> mount one or more auxilliary flash units on these little devices
> (essentially a hot shoe, a photocell, and a mounting screw) and place them
> where you wish. When the camera flash goes off, it triggers the
auxilliary
> flashes as well. How well your camera adapts its exposure to this, I
don't
> know, but it's worth a try if you can borrow the equipment (or rent
> cheaply).
> >
> > <<** Larry **>>
> >
> >
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