Herschel, I don't own a D70 but after talking with someone that owns one he said that preflash can be disabled in the settings. I would assume that you'll be shooting on manual exposure in the studio anyway. Bill On Wed, January 25, 2006 10:09 am, Herschel Mair said: > 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 power 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 > > www.herschelmair.com > > > > > --------------------------------- > Bring words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. >
