I was experimenting with speedlights and band photography tonight. My first observation is that after spending the evening trying to optically trigger off camera speedlights, I have a much better appreciation for the pocketwizard business model.
The Promaster that I was using on the camera kept falling out of manual into TTL mode. Maybe the problem is with the camera body not my AF450? Anyways, does anyone have a base for a promaster flash that just has the basic contacts for a plain vanilla hot shoe that they'd be willing to part with cheaply? One thing I was playing with was a honeycomb snoot on my on camera speedlight. I think I got some good shots using that as a tight spot on the musician. I'd love to try a similar technique with a ring flash sometime. If nothing else, it would make it a lot easier to keep the spot of light aligned with the center of the frame, and reduce parallax errors. Since I was running the flashes WFO and doing a lot of manual aperture adjustment, I switched to using the K20. As much as I love the K-x, the K20 is so much more a professional level camera in build quality and user interface. It's too bad that it doesn't have the performance of the K-x, or that I haven't yet been sufficiently financially irresponsible to get a K-5. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
