Larry: extremely apropos of this convo, read this Strobist article: http://strobist.blogspot.ca/2012/09/friday-night-lights.html
David tapes a strobe to his tele and shoots nighttime sports. Perfect. On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > > > On your musician idea: if you are shooting them any further than a > > couple of feet away, by the point that the light reaches them you'll > > hardly be able to tell the difference between light from a macro ring > > flash and a regular hammerhead flash, except that the ring flash has a > > puny light output in comparison. > > The main advantage is that it stays pointing exactly where the lens is > pointing. > > > Just put various light modifiers, > > lenses, grids, etc. on a AF360 or AF540 (or Vivitar) and you'll get a > > light almost indistinguishable from a macro ring flash at that > > distance. [...] -- -bmw -- 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.
