Studio
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/personals01.php>
Daylight fill
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/personals02.php>
Nighttime wedding reception
<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/party.php>
Enough?
But I seriously doubt that you need to learn anything photographic from
me. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 2/18/2014 4:02 PM, philippe.amard wrote:
> If I may intrude in this thread - I'd be curious to see some of the
> photographs of anyone on the list for which a flash was essential to
> the success of the take - don't mistake me, I just need to learn from
> you all.
>
> Thank you in anticipation
>
> Amities
> Philippe whose experience is rather that flash spoils a shot
>
>
> Le 18 févr. 14 à 21:57, Andrew Fildes a écrit :
>
>> My experience has been a little different. I have watched people
>> struggling with things like Pocket Wizards and failing because they
>> have soooo many features and options and channels and stuff that
>> they couldn't get them set up in a new situation quickly.
>> Meanwhile I've been using cheap Chinese triggers in workshop
>> situations for years (where I need up to half-a-dozen in three
>> rooms). Easy to set separate channels for different groups (visible,
>> manual, DIP switches) and I've only ever had one fail. Range? -
>> someone in another room in a separate but adjoining building with
>> four brick walls and open space between us was firing my flash the
>> other day (they wander off with the trigger still in the hot shoe).
>> I'm using ones branded 'Nice' at present - the receiver is the AC
>> power type plugged into the power line with a synch plug on a
>> stretchy wire. I use them with both Monoblocs and floor packs. They
>> don't even have an On-Off switch - if they're on the camera and the
>> flash is on, they're working and I only have to check/label them for
>> zones. No features, no options, no errors. I did go through a spell
>> where some of them didn't seem to fire consistently with Olympus
>> bodies (E3/5) but never any problems with Canikon.
>> The only down side is that I can't seem to top-up if they go missing
>> or break - every time I buy units they seem to be unable to talk to
>> each other. So I buy a new full set for less than half the cost of
>> one pair of fancy units and sell the remnants on ebay or at the
>> camera market. Or give them to workshop clients.
>> I've found the battery powered receiver units just as useful. So
>> have my strobist mates. I even have spare batteries for those
>> receivers just in case. (It's an odd one). I think some people think
>> that they're unreliable because the trigger unit also has a button
>> battery in it that's not easy to replace. Not dead, flat battery,
>> take it apart.
>>
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> www.soultheft.com
>>
>> Author/Publisher:
>> The SLR Compendium:
>> revised edition -
>> http://blur.by/19Hb8or
>> The TLR Compendium
>> http://blur.by/1eDpqN7
>>
>>
>>
>> On 19/02/2014, at 1:33 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> I'd suggest you get yourself a real radio transmitter and receiver of
>>> which there are many on the market. I like my Alien Bees units...
>>> the
>>> little battery powered CyberSync units shown here
>>> <http://www.paulcbuff.com/cybersync.php> but there are many others on
>>> the market. I gave up on my original cheapy ebay units because
>>> they had
>>> not much range and were very unreliable.
>>>
>>> Note: some of the CyberSync units are AC powered for studio strobes.
>>
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