----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:09
AM
Subject: RE: building a studio at
school
There is a problem with this too. The camera fires a "Test flash"
Milliseconds before the main flash ( to get the exposure0 this pre-flash
fires the studio flashes before the shutter opens.
In any case, you have not yet bought the camera so why get involved with
a system that you know will require a makeshift work-around.
Really, from experience, avoid the D70 for students.
herschel
Gregory Fraser
<Gregory.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
very important:
> the D70 has no place to plug a studio flash in. We
have 25 of them and now have
> took (to look) at something else to
use in the studio!
Well I have a Canon Rebel which also is crippled
by a lack of pc socket however, what I do is mount a flash on the hotshoe,
scale it down to its lowest po wer and aim it at the ceiling. I have an
optical slave on my studio flash power pack. This works fine for me since my
studio (living room) ceiling is only 10' high. I suppose in a larger room I
could increase the power on the hot shoe flash until it fired the studio
lights.
Of course there is some light from the hotshoe flash that
hits the subject but it is minimal and highly diffused.
You could
also use hotshoe mounted radio transmitter and receiver slave
setup.
Greg Fraser
Past Master of
Funk
http://home.golden.net/~fraserg
Herschel Mair
Head
of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Adobe Certified
instructor
+ (986) 99899 673
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