Re: Zoom Flash 300mm
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:34:51 -0500, you wrote: Amen to that. I've moved an AF500FTZ as much as six feet to the side of my 600/4 and still got red-eye (actually green-eye for that particular subject.) What was the critter with the green eyes, John? (I'm assuming that it's some animal with a nice nocturnally adapted tapetum lucidum behind the retina.) Fred Now I'm looking all over for the exact photos with green eye. I know my cats have either yellow, gold or blue; and rabbits shine quite red. I'm thinking it must have been backyard birds that first got me on the green-eye trail. Probably ordinary house finches or sparrows - not exactly creatures one would expect to have tapetum lucidum. Anyway, forget the green-eye, can't find the pic - but here's a favorite Gold-eye photo of mine: www.photolin.com/misc/precious01a.jpg and a moment later with Blue-eye: www.photolin.com/misc/precious02a.jpg and another shot showing the cumulative effect of too many flash pops ;-) www.photolin.com/misc/precious03a.jpg -- John Mustarde www.photolin.com
Re: Zoom Flash 300mm
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:45:51 +0100, you wrote: Gregory, I've used my AF500-FTZ with 200mm and 400mm within the flash range zoomed to 85mm. Within the flash range, it's darn practically impossible to avoid red eyes. Most of my shots look like retina studies. :-( Amen to that. I've moved an AF500FTZ as much as six feet to the side of my 600/4 and still got red-eye (actually green-eye for that particular subject.) -- John Mustarde www.photolin.com
Zoom Flash 300mm
I think such a thing doesn't exist, but I may as well ask. I've seen auto zoom flashes that go from around 28mm to 85mm, sometimes to 105mm. And there's a Fresnel lens, the Better Beamer, to extend flash range, but should be used with 300mm lenses or longer or the corners will get dark. But that leaves undeveloped the very popular zoom range of xx-300mm lenses. For instance, the numerous 80-200mm zooms, 100-300mm, or the 28-300mm. I know I could set any old zoom flash to the longest length and just use it, but it would still get longer range if it zoomed farther. And I know Fresnel lenses can be fitted to some flash units, but the flash and the camera don't know there's a Fresnel lens attached, so that kills the auto part of an auto zoom. So I wonder if there's any such thing as a 28-300mm auto zoom flash. If Pentax is reading this, it would be a really nice thing to have.
