It's beginning to look like any inexpensive new ring flash I find is going to have enough shortcomings that it won't have the flexibility for me to use it for some of the things I'd want to use it for. As such, I'm going to put getting a ring flash on the back burner in hopes that I find a good used one sometime at a price that I'll be able to afford when it is available.
One of the things that I'd like to try with one is gridding it to use it as a narrow spot when photographing musicians. For composition reasons, it'd be nice if it weren't dead center, but even if it means throwing away some resolution, it would put the nominally most important subject in the sharpest part of the lens, and half, or three quarters of the time, the one third point you choose to aim the flash at would be wrong anyways. I've tried gridding my AF 540, but it's always a challenge to get it to aim where I want it, with parallax and everything. -- 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.
