MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #17826203
I need a flash braniac's assistant please-
Some awesome news (for me, maybe others), or could be old old news.
For those who like to travel small and light the Nissin i40 is king.
But I learned in Costa Rica from Chris Jimenez the extreme value of
off-camera flash. Seeing the difference from on camera to a flash 10 feet
away blew me away.
The news is the little dinky Sony HVL-20 will remotely fire the i40 off camera.
The size of both of these flashes is still 1/2 the size of a 'normal' flash.
Now my puzzle is how much exposure is coming out of the HVL-20 on the camera?
So I covered the HVL-20 up with my hand-the i40 still fired with Poof holding it
8 feet away. Then I turned the Rii + HVL-20 in the oposite direction my body
blocking line of site with the i40 and the i40 still fired.
Ok so it's wireless! Even better....
Now these observations are without reading any manual, only putting the
Nissin in Sf mode and setting Fill Flash in the Rii's menus.
I covered up the HVL-20 so all exp would come from the remote i40 for the
results I'd be after in the real world BUT does anybody know how to do
this without covering up the HVL-20 ??
Next test is to try the Better Beamer with the i40.
I need a flash braniac's assistant please-
Some awesome news (for me, maybe others), or could be old old news.
For those who like to travel small and light the Nissin i40 is king.
But I learned in Costa Rica from Chris Jimenez the extreme value of
off-camera flash. Seeing the difference from on camera to a flash 10 feet
away blew me away.
The news is the little dinky Sony HVL-20 will remotely fire the i40 off camera.
The size of both of these flashes is still 1/2 the size of a 'normal' flash.
Now my puzzle is how much exposure is coming out of the HVL-20 on the camera?
So I covered the HVL-20 up with my hand-the i40 still fired with Poof holding it
8 feet away. Then I turned the Rii + HVL-20 in the oposite direction my body
blocking line of site with the i40 and the i40 still fired.
Ok so it's wireless! Even better....
Now these observations are without reading any manual, only putting the
Nissin in Sf mode and setting Fill Flash in the Rii's menus.
I covered up the HVL-20 so all exp would come from the remote i40 for the
results I'd be after in the real world BUT does anybody know how to do
this without covering up the HVL-20 ??
Next test is to try the Better Beamer with the i40.
Heck, I didn't even know the i40 could be fired wirelessly unless it's done optically. I'll have to check that out.
jay125 wrote in post #17826232
I'll be joining this thread. My sister stopped in for a few days on her way to California. We did the gift exchange just before she left, and she insisted I open mine so she would know if it was a good choice.
I'm thinking it was a good choice. When I visited her last year, I was mainly using my a6000, and told her it was an awesome little camera. She stepped it up a few notches for me. I love my sister.
Let the learning begin!
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I'll be joining this thread. My sister stopped in for a few days on her way to California. We did the gift exchange just before she left, and she insisted I open mine so she would know if it was a good choice.
I'm thinking it was a good choice. When I visited her last year, I was mainly using my a6000, and told her it was an awesome little camera. She stepped it up a few notches for me. I love my sister.
Let the learning begin!
Congrats on having such a wonderful sister and welcome to the thread.
