How about one of these,
http://www.bellparts.com/enlarge/495572/
and one of these,
http://www.frys.com/product/5351708
plus a pair of 9V batteries, a switch, and some wire ... and probably
some duct tape, somewhere along the line. Or Shoe Goo.
--
Doug "Lefty" Franklin
NutDriver Racing
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>From the sounds of it, your 540 is most likely seriously broken. I
think the biggest Pentax issue here is that after so many attempts to
repair it, they should have offered you a brand new one in exchange.
Pentax service is really hit and miss.
A couple of things for you to check though:
How ha
On Sep 16, 2012, at 7:39 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> Larry: extremely apropos of this convo, read this Strobist article:
>
> http://strobist.blogspot.ca/2012/09/friday-night-lights.html
>
> David tapes a strobe to his tele and shoots nighttime sports. Perfect.
excellent!
Speaking of strobes...
Larry: extremely apropos of this convo, read this Strobist article:
http://strobist.blogspot.ca/2012/09/friday-night-lights.html
David tapes a strobe to his tele and shoots nighttime sports. Perfect.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>
> On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Bruce Wal
On Sep 10, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> Larry, take it from me: if you are buying a macro ring flash hoping to
> do anything other than shooting small objects well lit close up, you
> are wasting your money and time.
Two things that I seem to be exceptional at.
>
> On your musician
Larry, take it from me: if you are buying a macro ring flash hoping to
do anything other than shooting small objects well lit close up, you
are wasting your money and time.
On your musician idea: if you are shooting them any further than a
couple of feet away, by the point that the light reaches t
From: steve harley
on 2012-09-08 10:47 John Sessoms wrote
I've had an idea of scrounging up a whole bunch of those disposable cameras
that have flash & disassembling them to get enough of those to make my own.
Thinking of mounting them around something like a ring frisbee.
used flashes are so
It's beginning to look like any inexpensive new ring flash I find is going to
have enough shortcomings that it won't have the flexibility for me to use it
for some of the things I'd want to use it for. As such, I'm going to put
getting a ring flash on the back burner in hopes that I find a good
on 2012-09-08 10:47 John Sessoms wrote
I've had an idea of scrounging up a whole bunch of those disposable cameras
that have flash & disassembling them to get enough of those to make my own.
Thinking of mounting them around something like a ring frisbee.
used flashes are so cheap and plentiful
From: Larry Colen
On Sep 10, 2012, at 5:16 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I didn't think that guide numbers had any real meaning except when
using flash.
Neither did I. They probably don't, but most sites are still
listing the LED macro ring light as having a guide number of 18m.
They don't te
t;
>>> there are vivitar generic ring led flashes on ebay for about $70
>>> GN of 60 at ISO 100, pretty powerful. Not sure if they have manual
>>> flash power control or not.model DR-6000
>>>
>>> -------------
>>> J.C.O'Connell
>>> hifis...@gat
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Unfortunately, when I started diggi
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From: Larry Colen
Unfortunately, when I started digging into what it would cost to
upgrade my tripod/monopod heads, and do it right, it rapidly exceeded
my birthday present budget. I was trying to photograph a spider
eating a fly this afternoon, and tried several variations of the
flash, includ
You can use a standard flash unit and just mount it on a butterfly
bracket. That is just a DIY bracket that puts the flash in front of the
camera lens for macro shooting.
This is an old one that I used for several years, I have a more elegant
design these days but it places the flash in essen
nnell
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 12:25 AM
To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'
Subject: RE: Anybody got a line on an inexpensive ring flash?
there are vivitar generic ring led flashes on ebay for about $70
GN of 60 at ISO 100, pretty powerful. Not sure if they have manual
flash power control
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Larry Colen
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:30 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Anybody got a line on an inexpensive ring flash?
Unfortunately, when I started digging into what it would cost to upgrade my
tripod/monopod heads, and
Unfortunately, when I started digging into what it would cost to upgrade my
tripod/monopod heads, and do it right, it rapidly exceeded my birthday present
budget. I was trying to photograph a spider eating a fly this afternoon, and
tried several variations of the flash, including my el cheapo p
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