On 7 Nov 2009 16:38:23 GMT, Chris Malcolm <c
...@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <j
...@panix.com> wrote:
>> jones <nom
...@mail.com> wrote:
>>> I was thinking of getting a basic standalone flash and firing it
>>> using a light-sensitive trigger. What sort of cost is a basic flash
>>> trigger for that sort of job?
>> There are various "peanut" and hot-shoe optical slave triggers
>> available from Wein and other manufacturers. I think they usually go
>> for about $20.
>But those will only work if you turn off both the red eye reduction
>pre-flash and the metering pre-flash in the compact camera. I suspect
>few compact cameras permit you to turn off the metering pre-flash. In
>which case you'd have to get one of the more expensive kinds of
>optical trigger which is capable of ignoring the appropriate number
>of pre-flashes.
WRONG. You fuckingly useless troll. Stop handing out advice for which you
have no knowledge. You're wasting the time of people far more valuable than
your pathetically inexperienced and ignorance-filled life will ever be.
Unless you have FIRST-HAND knowledge of what you speak, keep your ignorant
and inexperienced "suspicions" and assumptions to yourself.
Many P&S cameras have manual flash modes with no pre-flash events. If there
is a Manual mode on their P&S camera, chances are very high that it also is
equipped with a manual flash setting, often having 3 or more different
fixed-output levels.
And here's one of those "more expensive" slaves that handle cameras that
don't have manual flash modes. With a very nice tilting bracket that allows
you to angle any inexpensive (or expensive) flash unit for bounce-flash
lighting.
http://www.adorama.com/SZ23504.html
For just one of many models available out there.
$33.50, wow, an extra $13.50! Nobody can afford something like that! That's
so much more expensive! <eye roll>
I personally own two of these. The bracket is extremely sturdy, the locking
mechanism to hold the flash at the angle of your choice is very secure and
locks down solid. Build quality was surprisingly much better than I had
ever expected for that price. When the slave unit is switched to
digital-camera mode it adequately ignores all pre-flash events on all
camera settings that have tested it with, with a variety of P&S cameras. I
only have to remember to turn that off when I switch my cameras to manual
flash output modes. (Now, you might ask, why on earth would he buy a slave
that fits into a hot-shoe for his P&S cameras? Because all my P&S cameras
have hot-shoes, but not all my flashes are of the lower trigger voltage
limits of today's digital cameras. I also like firing the flashes held on
extension brackets or mounted on tripods further away from the cameras,
situation dependent. Mostly when photographing more distant wildlife at
night with focused strobes so as not to impart red, blue, orange, or
green-eye in the images. Rare is red-eye ever a problem in wildlife flash
photography.)
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