> Someone recently was asking about closeup/macro lighting.
> I was on the point of converting a cheap starblitz ring flash to work
> with L.E.D.s but then I spotted this on the bay....no connection etc.
> Do you think the idea is sound with static subjects?
>
> eb*y no 330099343572
Well, the lighting looks even enough, so I don't see any reason why it
wouldn't work -- and it's not all _that_ expensive.
The only question is how bright it actually is -- I've been doing
macro stuff with the subject about three inches away from a 60W bulb;
exposure time is 1/2 second or so there. By comparison, even the 10GN
builtin flash on an E-330 is bright enough to illuminate things for a
flash's worth of duration.
So, as you said, static subjects only -- but at that point, it seems
like you could just make up a light tent out of white paper or suchlike,
there's been a bunch of instructions for those floating around.
(if you want to give it a try on the cheap, you can get a lot of LEDs
very cheaply -- amigoofchina on the bay sells 100x10,000 mcd LEDs for
$24-ish, and those ones will run off fairly flexible voltages, so you
could make something up to see how it works out. Heck, I should try that
myself..)
-- dan
-- dan
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