John wrote:
I was thinking something like if you have the square or rectangular Lee,
Tiffen, etc you could put the filter in front of the strobe to attenuate
the light at the source, and that would work with ANY lens.
Or just hang some shower curtain, one or two layers thick, as a
diffuser, a little ways in front of the strobe, or move the strobe back,
or turn it around and use it as a bounce. There are a lot of ways to
cut down on the brightness of the strobe. He could have even just hung
some strips of aluminum foil in front of the soft box. But, I'm quite
sure that Paul knows all of these tricks and just computed the ratio of
how much he wanted less dof versus how much work he was willing to do to
get it.
On 3/16/2016 2:56 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Yeah, but I haven't bought any filters for the 24-70. It's 82 mm, and
I need a polarizer first for car pics. But I can dial a few stops out
of each light. Just have to wrestle with that 5 foot softbox a bit.
With the k-1 on the verge of coming out, I did the nerd thing and made a
spreadsheet of all of my lenses. One of the columns is filter size. My
bigma is 86mm, my Sigma 20/1.7 is 82. My 16-50 and A* 200 are 77. One
of the things I'll need to plan is which filters I need in which sizes,
and which I should get filter adapters for.
At some point, I need to start looking at ND filters. I haven't looked
at the electronics, but I'm a little surprised they can't turn the gain
down on the sensors much below ISO 100.
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