On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:40:34PM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > > LinkDelight has a hot shoe extension cord for something like $10. That will > > reliably get the flash off your camera. > > > I have ordered a few things from LinkDelight and the stuff is not to > bad, the extension flash cord and a off camera flash braket. Cheap but > are holding up
The Pentax flash extension cord that I bought along with the 540 cost me something like $50, and more or less worked, most of the time. I picked up the one from link delight which is a hot shoe extension (the shoe for the other end of the cable would have cost me another $30 from Pentax), and cost me $5 or $10, and I've never had any problem at all with it. I find it tremendously useful to put the hot shoe end of it on my monopod, and use it to lift my flash up away from my camera. I can either put one of my milk jug fong dongs on the flash to get a good spread of light, bounce it off the ceiling with a lot less inverse square light path loss, because it's so much closer to the ceiling, or just manually zoom the flash out so I don't have to aim too accurately. By the way, the one time that I use flash in P-TTL mode is when I'm photographing people spinning fire. I set my shutter speed to get the amount of fire trail that I want. I then set my aperture so that the fire is exposed correctly, and I use the flash on PTTL to freeze the motion of the dancer. I may dial in a bit of exposure compensation ( negative one or two stops ). This is what I did when we photographed the fire spinners when you came out to Santa Cruz. > > Dave > > > > > > -- > > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
