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I feel like I’m a good photographer, but I just can’t get to grips with using a flash. Its a totally new world of settings! haha
Then i am afraid you aren’t a good photographer.
you cannot regard yourself as a “good photographer” if you cannot get to grips with a massive part of photography.
That’s like saying, “i feel like i am a good driver, but i can’t get to grips with turning corners”
I agree 100%. Truest words ever spoken on this pathetic site.
really?? so landscape and wildlife photography require a deep knowledge of using a flash does it?? good luck with that! haha
At night, I use a very powerful flash to light up the Serengeti. There’s basically nowhere the wildlife can hide.
haha maybe it would be more fair to say he is not experienced with artificial lighting? Edward Steichen, arguably one of the best fashion photographers in the world, used continous lighting- is his work and expertise suddenly disqualified by the invention of strobes?!
Strobes are only a massive part of a specific type of photography, and like anything else, they are just a tool, and it is a tool that will only be used when it needs to be… oh why am I wasting my time here…
http://www.frankwithersphoto.com
You’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer, are you?
haha its ok. I shoot for some of the biggest brands in the world but I haven’t EVER needed artificial lighting to do my work. Comparing driving and turning corners?? Its more like “Im a good driver but can’t get to grips with towing a trailer”.
I’m with you. I rarely use a flash. Info not do any studio set ups. Mosty just family and friends. My focus on photography is landscapes.
This flash is worth only $100 due to the overheating issues and lack of sync port.
You are being charitable.
This is a great flash, if only it didn’t have a plastic shoe and overheat quickly. Both of the shoes on my flashes have broken, both were replaced- then broken again!!! Clearly a weak spot. And the lack of sync port is embarrassing. | http://www.frankwithersphoto.com
The metal shoes have broken on my Canon flashes too. Flashes in general are delicate and fickle.
How did you break them? My Sony shoes broke from regular use, nothing hit them. Weak locks too, that slip frequently. I use Yongnuo 560s for off-camera, some over a year in Caribbean environment with no damage to the shoes, and they HAVE fallen and generally been treated poorly and are fairing fine! Its just embarrassing on Sony’s part for a $500, or even $250 now-discounted flash!
I have one for when I need it, but I really think continuous light is the way of the future – and an area where I think the EVF is at a definite advantage.
You forget that flashes aren’t only for dim light, in those circumstances of which sure, continuous light is easier to compose with (you are seeing it in real time) – but beyond that, how much advantage are you really gaining? Creatively, strobes provide a lot more options for color/power at your fingertips that if you were to duplicate with continuous light would be far more cumbersome, inconvenient, expensive, etc- Let’s also factor in the lack of practicality of blasting subjects with continuous light in various event settings, where a quick pop of low-power flash is much more discreet.
In pure darkness, you can also use the properties of flash and the speed of light to help freeze subjects where continuous light does not give you this power.
You also forget that strobes are used to overpower the sun, a massive feat to accomplish with continuous lighting- we can’t all walk around with giant HMIs. I work primarily in the Caribbean and use my strobes at 1/2 or full power constantly to overpower the sun. Because of these situations, and until the dynamic range of camera sensors is absolutely insane, strobes will have their place-
http://www.frankwithersphoto.com
Great points Frank – I’m sure flash will be around for quite a while yet! But I do see a day where continuous will overtake it. One *big* advantage is the ability to shoot video (4K, 8K, or otherwise). With the increased sensitivity of sensors (A7S for example) you won’t need to ‘blast’ the subject and there are many creative possibility with cinematic lighting too. Interesting times we live in….
If you mean shoot 4K as video, well nothing has changed, we use HMI to battle the sun or giant reflectors or… shoot everything in the shade. Flash is flash, cinematic lighting is cinematic lighting. To be honest I light a lot of photography with my cinema lights, but that is because we also shoot video around this, but it is not as flexible. And a sensor that can bridge backlight from the sun? Perhaps in 20 years, but we need to change monitor tech first.
increased sensitivity doesn’t account for balancing your light sources (particularly ambient sources that you DON’T have control over), only selective dynamic range or customized/staged lighting can combat this, and in those regards, strobes are still much more efficient
It’ll be 8K video & snag stills if you need them. There’ll always be a place for “high-end stills & associated production techniques” but the consumer will want motion and frame grabs if and when.
The complexity of auto exposure and differential lighting with flash is well mathematical and largely impossible..you missed that bit i guess
Lol, what a photography noob.
Typical Sony user.
You buy a Sony E-mount gadget and then you call yourself a professional photographer!
Professional user just means you are paid for your work.
No, it means you are very good at what you do, as opposed to an amateur, who is not.
When we say that someone did a very professional job, or an amateurish job, then we mean that the job was very well done, or badly done, respectively. It has nothing to do with whether any money was paid for the job.
Pakistani taxi drivers are a good example of this…………… 🙂
Back in the days , film photographers didn’t accept digital cameras as a real camera for professionals.
Nobody gave a damn about them and now they are almost gone , dead , vanished.
Now people like you laughing at EVFs and mirrorless cameras , will be history , soon 😉
Technology is running faster than your brain
Shoutout to the guy that upvotes himself.
LOL! Hahahaha! Why bother with using a flash with a tiny sensor toy camera that can’t capture any light anyway? Ridiculous! Hahahahaha!
Oh wait, this isn’t 43rumors, is it? Damn, must remember not to have all the sites where I troll open at the same time.
Just edit out tiny sensor and you will find a few other trolls agreeing with you,
Picked up two from these guys the other day as if you need them this price is a steal. I don’t often use flash, but when I do its often a two light set up off camera. Got a third, which I use as a TTL trigger, free with my A7 a year ago. They haven’t arrived yet, but it says Manufacturer refurbished so I am hopeful all will be OK. Sony says they will perform any needed firmware update, even if out of warranty.
I use minolta 4000 flashes. 15 bucks a piece….priceless.
Flash tube (like light bulbs) have definite life time. Junk the old and get something new (not the HVL60 crap).
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-keep-your-old-flash-from.html
30 years old and they are still working. I could replace them ten times over and still be under the cost of one modern cheap flash. Just sayin.
are they good? its just that old minolta hot shoe that sony have moved from. the adaptor is garbage that they provide. haha
Works like a charm. I actually bought it for my film camera…Minolta 7000…as a joke I mounted it on the A7…WAMMO. Just bought some radio triggers today and tried two of them off camera. Bingo. I mean seriously, these 4000’s are super powerful and so dirt cheap…it’s practically free lighting.
Still not worth it