Continuous lighting question....

shedsomelight wrote:
Curtis--

Thanks for your reply. GRRR! I wish I would have know that the Rebel XT wasn't designed to be a studio camera! That would have saved me $1200!

The external flash I had....it was a flash housed in a 2x3 softbox. I bought the adapter that goes on top of the camera so I could use the flash with the camera. And it worked fine in that the flash triggered like it was suppose to, but the images were unpredictable. The first shot would be very bright, the second darker and the 3rd even darker! So I figured the camera just didn't work well with external flash and I switched to continuous lighting instead.

Don't overreact!..."wasn't designed to be a studio camera" is only that it lacks a built in PC flash connector...scarcely worth more than a few seconds irritation, at most!

You flash problems sound like more an issue of a cheap flash setup and how you used it (not overcoming its limitations), not an issue with the camera per se. Did you allow some time between shots for the flash unit to recycle itself?...from your description, no!

Jessica,

You are correct, I indicated "Av" when I should have indicated "Tv". I have corrected is error in my long post above.

Glad you overcome my mistake, and things have worked out.

If you are using the 18-55mm lens, you can safely drop the shutter speed down to 1/125 second, and not use a tripod. I suggest doing this.

This will give you a slightly smaller aperture and increase your depth of field. This extra bit of depth of field will likely help keep a bit more in focus, and possibly make up for slight auto focus errors that happen when the light intensity is relatively low.

Post a link to an image using your updated technique if you like.

Enjoy! Lon

Hey...if you don't want your flash setup, I'll take it