On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:16 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen >> Last night I tried John's (I think it was John) suggestion about >> clipping a light to the strobe to help aim it. While it seems to >> help with aiming, when photographing musician in fairly low light, >> shining a flashlight in their face while trying to set up the camera >> seemed to be rather distracting and annoying. > > Yeah. Sticking a 4D Maglight up there ain't indicated!
I wasn't quite that ridiculous about it. > > I suggested using one of those little single LED lights ... like the kind you > carry on a key-chain in case you need to see the door-lock to insert your key > when you come home at night and you've left the porch light off. I tried to find one at fry's, but none of the ones there had a switch to leave them on, they all had the buttons that had to be held continuously. I was able to get a clip on light, with either two or 6 leds that would stay on. Of course, the next night, I found one that I already had, taped to one of my water jug flash diffusers. > > One AAA battery, one LED that doesn't put out a lot of light; duct-taped to > the top of the strobe so it lines up and provides just enough illumination so > you can see where the strobe is pointed. It's a tricky balance in a dark room. > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3456 - Release Date: 02/20/11 > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
