Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/06

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Subject: [Leica] Another M9 question - Flash on the Shadow Side
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:56:06 -0500
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Alan,

Your modified flash certainly does a nice job.  And the recharge time means 
you don't have to worry about it being ready for the next shot.  Nice work!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Another M9 question - Flash on the Shadow Side


> On Wed, 06 Oct 2010  George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>Couldn't agree more. Use the tools required to achieve the intended 
>>purpose and required quality. To do less would be unprofessional. Strobe 
>>"on the camera" will almost never work, except as "fill," to achieve 
>>anything approaching a >"natural" look.
> =====================================================================================================================================================================================
> Related to this, I finally got a Safe-Synch so I can use one of my custom 
> "wink flashes" with Canon DSLRs.  These are cheap Morris manual flashes 
> that I de-powered by putting in a weaker capacitor, thus filling in under 
> office or other room lighting without overpowering it:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/WinkFlash1_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> I've used these for years with my M's:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Gear/WinkFlashGrad_MR.jpg.html>
>
> and now can fill in with the Canon 5D MkII:
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Authors_WinkFlash_MR8351.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Work/Kennan_WinkFlash_MR9521.jpg.html>
>
> For these two, I taped an 85B filter over the flash to match the existing 
> lights.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
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