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: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:14:03 -0500 (CDT)

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. 
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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/


Replies: Reply from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] Another M9 question - Flash on the Shadow Side)
Reply from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Another M9 question - Flash on the Shadow Side)