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flash question, external flash power
OK, obvious newbie question... I have a digital camera, and bought a $115
external hot-shoe flash for it, thinking that I would end up with a much more powerful illumination in big rooms for example. But incredibly the little built in flash on the camera is MUCH brighter than that behemoth $115 external flash sitting atop the camera! I must be missing something. Tim |
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flash question, external flash power
"Destin_FL" wrote in message
newsiHKc.3556$Qv4.1628@lakeread03... OK, obvious newbie question... I have a digital camera, and bought a $115 external hot-shoe flash for it, thinking that I would end up with a much more powerful illumination in big rooms for example. But incredibly the little built in flash on the camera is MUCH brighter than that behemoth $115 external flash sitting atop the camera! I must be missing something. Tim Which camera & which flash? |
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flash question, external flash power
"Destin_FL" writes:
OK, obvious newbie question... I have a digital camera, and bought a $115 external hot-shoe flash for it, thinking that I would end up with a much more powerful illumination in big rooms for example. But incredibly the little built in flash on the camera is MUCH brighter than that behemoth $115 external flash sitting atop the camera! I must be missing something. I dunno, you might be not using the flash correctly, or you might have bought an inferior flash. For straight shooting (no bounce), I have photographed people 30-50 feet away with my two flashes (both a $35 auto flash which was pretty much at its limit when the camera was at ISO 400, and my $200 TTL flash with the camera at ISO 100). Note if you are bouncing the flash, you will get a lot less range than if you shoot direct, since a lot of the light does not illuminate the subject. -- Michael Meissner email: http://www.the-meissners.org |
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flash question, external flash power
"Destin_FL" writes:
OK, obvious newbie question... I have a digital camera, and bought a $115 external hot-shoe flash for it, thinking that I would end up with a much more powerful illumination in big rooms for example. But incredibly the little built in flash on the camera is MUCH brighter than that behemoth $115 external flash sitting atop the camera! I must be missing something. I dunno, you might be not using the flash correctly, or you might have bought an inferior flash. For straight shooting (no bounce), I have photographed people 30-50 feet away with my two flashes (both a $35 auto flash which was pretty much at its limit when the camera was at ISO 400, and my $200 TTL flash with the camera at ISO 100). Note if you are bouncing the flash, you will get a lot less range than if you shoot direct, since a lot of the light does not illuminate the subject. -- Michael Meissner email: http://www.the-meissners.org |
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flash question, external flash power
"Destin_FL" writes:
OK, obvious newbie question... I have a digital camera, and bought a $115 external hot-shoe flash for it, thinking that I would end up with a much more powerful illumination in big rooms for example. But incredibly the little built in flash on the camera is MUCH brighter than that behemoth $115 external flash sitting atop the camera! I must be missing something. I dunno, you might be not using the flash correctly, or you might have bought an inferior flash. For straight shooting (no bounce), I have photographed people 30-50 feet away with my two flashes (both a $35 auto flash which was pretty much at its limit when the camera was at ISO 400, and my $200 TTL flash with the camera at ISO 100). Note if you are bouncing the flash, you will get a lot less range than if you shoot direct, since a lot of the light does not illuminate the subject. -- Michael Meissner email: http://www.the-meissners.org |
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