{"id":1213,"date":"2009-01-25T11:08:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T11:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2009-01-25T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T11:08:59","slug":"filters-and-flashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Filters And Flashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, for some assorted geeking out!<\/p>\n


\nKaleidoscopic colors! It comes with a rotating ring with a stub to rotate the effect around.<\/p>\n


\nThere was also the classic soft spot filter.<\/p>\n


\nHowever, the coolest was this one! You could rotate it to affect the angle of repetition.<\/p>\n


\nI had never seen so many rare filters in one place!<\/p>\n


\nYes these great finds were in a shop called dSLR<\/b> in Subang Parade.<\/p>\n


\nWhat else did I find there?<\/p>\n


\nThe Sunpak PF20XD! I had been contemplating a tiny flash for my Sony Alpha 900. This was the smallest I’d seen with manual power (since it uses the old hotshoe mount, I need to use my adapter, but the flash must be able to dial down its power or else it will always fire at full power when using the adapter!)<\/p>\n

And now, for finds elsewhere.<\/p>\n


\nA ring light…<\/p>\n


\n…and something more portable with a wow effect.<\/p>\n


\nYep, that’s the Sony HVL-F58AM on my former Sony Alpha 700, wirelessly commanding the Sony HVL-F42AM (on the F58’s stand) on the right. The lens is my former diminutive Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm F2.4, with a very nice normal angle.<\/p>\n

Notice the orange gel on the F58? It’s not on the F42 (it was the shop’s unit). I made a custom cardboard holder for it to quickly attach and remove the gels.<\/p>\n


\nNow this is why the Nikon SB-900 costs RM400 more than the F58 – it comes with a flash gel clip-on holder! Of course, the guy who was using this n00bishly did not know what it was for but clipped it on anyway. This isn’t quite the same as the diffuser that is given!<\/p>\n

Though, I would maintain that my design is faster to remove and put on.<\/p>\n

Note that putting the gel clip without putting a gel is going to waste a wee bit of flash power for no reason.<\/p>\n


\nThe SB-900 comes with a very cool feature which detects which flash gel is on, and sends the correct color temperature to a compatible Nikon (D300\/D3 onwards.) How does it know? I only found out yesterday – there are square markings which lie on an infrared sensor on the SB-900. Different combinations of squares will transmit different data – I noticed a full and half tungsten-to-daylight filter, and a full and half flourescent-to-daylight filter.<\/p>\n


\nAnyway, back to the wonderful swivelling F58, seen here on a Type-A light stand mount adapter.<\/p>\n


\nFlashes also have them AF assist lights, which honestly look very pretty. Tron, anyone?<\/p>\n


\nWireless flash. Flash head zoomed to 85mm and placed from the left and another flash head had its diffuser on so it becomes 17mm and gives a soft look.<\/p>\n


\nFinally, KJ jumps! Flashes were on Strobe mode and shot the closest thing to closeup with this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, for some assorted geeking out! Kaleidoscopic colors! It comes with a rotating ring with a stub to rotate the effect around. There was also the classic soft spot filter. However, the coolest was this one! You could rotate it to affect the angle of repetition. I had never seen so many rare filters in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}