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Re: [OM] macro with oncamera flash

Subject: Re: [OM] macro with oncamera flash
From: "Clemente Colayco" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 10:40:49 +0800
HI tom

could you do us a favor of emailing a picture of this contraption?

Regards

Titoy

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom A. Trottier <TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] macro with oncamera flash


> (switch to Courier type to see this properly)
>
> Great idea! You could also use the white corrugated plastic board
> with a slip fit. Light & flexible & cheap, fits in the camera bag.
>
> I suggested a slip fit bounce reflector earlier for the T32, like
> this:
>
> \
>  \
>   \
>    \
>     \
>   ___\
>   \xxt32xxx
>     xxxxxxx
>        \ xx
> that you put on after flipping the flash lens to face upwards.
>
> Now I just have to put a hole in the far end.
> So it will now look like this:
>
> ___________________
> |        _        |
> |       / \       |
> |       \_/       |
> |                 |
> |                 |
> |                 |
> |                 |
> |                 |
> |                 |
> |                 |
>  \               /
>   \             /
>    \           /
>     | _______ |
>     | |     | |
>     | |     | |
>     | |_____| |
>     |_________|
>
>
> I've gotten no lens shadowing using a 90mm macro and the bounce
> flash. Using the bounce may also be brighter if more is bounced than
> transmitted thru. f/32, here I come.
>
> Tom
>
> On 30 Jan 2001, at 10:20, sayeth WKato@xxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > In a message dated 1/30/01 3:40:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > Rainer.Wagner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > > What about  this setup?
> > >  http://www.glink.net.hk/~olympus/flash-d.htm
> > >  I modified it by using a a foam plastic salad dish I got from a
takeaway
> > > pizza
> > >  place, cut a hole slighly off center and then slide it over the lens
front
> > > ring.
> > >  No real macro pics yet, but the principle works.
> > >
> > >  Rainer
> > >
> > Thanks. Now I don't need that setup that recently sold for $685. [See:
ebay
> > Item #1209226743]  This was an OM-2S, 50/3.5, winder,Olympus T power
control
> > and dual ??Lena?? flashes.
>
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