Studio Light and EOS 300D

[cwt]

Can anyone tell me whether the EOS300D can use in a studio light? Do I need to get any special gear to connect to the studio light?

[BDM]

Can anyone tell me whether the EOS300D can use in a studio light? Do I need to get any special gear to connect to the studio light?

I assume when you speak of a "studio light" you mean a studio electronic flash. You will need a hot shoe adaptor which provides a PC socketso you can connec the flash unit to the camera. As it comes, the 300D has no socket for an external flash. You will also need a sync line voltage protector (regulator) so the studio light sync line voltages do not exceed he rather low limits of safe operation with the 300D. Your camera shop should be able to provide that. Without such a unit, you camera is very likely to be damaged as most studio flashes use sync voltages considerably higher than the safe maximum for the 300D electronic circuits.

And you will really need an electronic flash meter. You will be using the camera in manual mode and you will need a separate meter to determine exposure. Remember, the built in flash exposure features do not work with external studio flash equipment. You can try to make test exposures and adjust the lens aperature accordingly but that takes time and becomes awkward if you are going to make a number of different light setups during a session. You can start without such a meter but if you are going to do any significant amount of work with studio flash units you will soon want and need such a meter.

Bruce

[BDM]

Can anyone tell me whether the EOS300D can use in a studio light? Do I need to get any special gear to connect to the studio light?

I assume when you speak of a "studio light" you mean a studio electronic flash. You will need a hot shoe adaptor which provides a PC socketso you can connec the flash unit to the camera. As it comes, the 300D has no socket for an external flash. You will also need a sync line voltage protector (regulator) so the studio light sync line voltages do not exceed he rather low limits of safe operation with the 300D. Your camera shop should be able to provide that. Without such a unit, you camera is very likely to be damaged as most studio flashes use sync voltages considerably higher than the safe maximum for the 300D electronic circuits.

And you will really need an electronic flash meter. You will be using the camera in manual mode and you will need a separate meter to determine exposure. Remember, the built in flash exposure features do not work with external studio flash equipment. You can try to make test exposures and adjust the lens aperature accordingly but that takes time and becomes awkward if you are going to make a number of different light setups during a session. You can start without such a meter but if you are going to do any significant amount of work with studio flash units you will soon want and need such a meter.

Bruce

[BDM]

Can anyone tell me whether the EOS300D can use in a studio light? Do I need to get any special gear to connect to the studio light?

I assume when you speak of a "studio light" you mean a studio electronic flash. You will need a hot shoe adaptor which provides a PC socketso you can connec the flash unit to the camera. As it comes, the 300D has no socket for an external flash. You will also need a sync line voltage protector (regulator) so the studio light sync line voltages do not exceed he rather low limits of safe operation with the 300D. Your camera shop should be able to provide that. Without such a unit, you camera is very likely to be damaged as most studio flashes use sync voltages considerably higher than the safe maximum for the 300D electronic circuits.

And you will really need an electronic flash meter. You will be using the camera in manual mode and you will need a separate meter to determine exposure. Remember, the built in flash exposure features do not work with external studio flash equipment. You can try to make test exposures and adjust the lens aperature accordingly but that takes time and becomes awkward if you are going to make a number of different light setups during a session. You can start without such a meter but if you are going to do any significant amount of work with studio flash units you will soon want and need such a meter.

Bruce

[BDM]

Can anyone tell me whether the EOS300D can use in a studio light? Do I need to get any special gear to connect to the studio light?

I assume when you speak of a "studio light" you mean a studio electronic flash. You will need a hot shoe adaptor which provides a PC socketso you can connec the flash unit to the camera. As it comes, the 300D has no socket for an external flash. You will also need a sync line voltage protector (regulator) so the studio light sync line voltages do not exceed he rather low limits of safe operation with the 300D. Your camera shop should be able to provide that. Without such a unit, you camera is very likely to be damaged as most studio flashes use sync voltages considerably higher than the safe maximum for the 300D electronic circuits.

And you will really need an electronic flash meter. You will be using the camera in manual mode and you will need a separate meter to determine exposure. Remember, the built in flash exposure features do not work with external studio flash equipment. You can try to make test exposures and adjust the lens aperature accordingly but that takes time and becomes awkward if you are going to make a number of different light setups during a session. You can start without such a meter but if you are going to do any significant amount of work with studio flash units you will soon want and need such a meter.

Bruce

[Inactive member 28]

hi there,
I just purchased the new EOS Rebel. I captured some picture outdoor and indoor. The outdoor picture is look fine but the studio picuture I see more yellow on it. I'm using the umbrallars light.
Please advise. What can I do to correct this?
Thanks
Lee

[Inactive member 28]

hi there,
I just purchased the new EOS Rebel. I captured some picture outdoor and indoor. The outdoor picture is look fine but the studio picuture I see more yellow on it. I'm using the umbrallars light.
Please advise. What can I do to correct this?
Thanks
Lee

[DaveG]

Get a Wein safe synch for your camera. It will accomplish two things, it'll give you a synch cord connection and it will also prevent any extra strobe voltage from hurting your camera.

For the person with the yellow light, the problem could be with your flash's modeling lights. They are going to have either incandescent or halogen bulbs which throw a "yellow" light. Take a picture using ONLY the light from the modeling lamps. Does it look similar in colour to the other shots?

This problem is caused when your camera's shutterspeed and aperture is close to the light output of the modeling lights. Let's say that the modeling light outputs at 1/30 @ f5.6 with ISO200. If you set up your camera this way AND use flash, the image will have mixed blue light from the flash tube (that's daylight by the way) along with the yellow from the modeling lights. And this will certainly cause a colour cast.

You cure this by either turning off the modeling lights, or you make sure that your flash exposure is a number of stops brighter than the modeling light exposure. Again if the modeling lights are 1/30 @ f5.6 with ISO 200 use 1/125 @ f8 (that's three stops) and I would think that your colour cast problem will go away.

Now if your strobes are really old there is a chance that the flash tube light has yellowed and short of filtering it or fixing it on the computer there's not much you can do.