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burningsensation
05/08/09

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sheesh, not a lot of strobist fans here huh?
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bosskev
05/08/09

@burningsensation: No strobist, but does it count that I'm a flasher?
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OMG! Ponies!
05/08/09

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Too little too late.

I just buy used off of Craigslist. The savings over new can be put toward the Brand B flash that doesn't work on the Brand A camera.
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Gizmodoholic
05/08/09

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why not to buy a good flash instead? you allready spend some money on a dslr...
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OMG! Ponies!
05/08/09

@Gizmodoholic: Because you might already have a perfectly-cromulent flash from Canon that you want to use on a Nikon.
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bosskev
05/08/09

@Gizmodoholic: Or, just commit to never using a flash. That's what I do.

I never, under any conditions, use a flash. I hate the ugly, ugly, ugly effect that a flash mounted on camera gives. The only two places I'd maybe use a flash is (1) in a controlled studio setting where I can position one or more flash units creatively/aesthetically and with umbrellas/softboxes, or (2) during industrial espionage in dark interiors. As I don't do studio shooting as in (1) and am now banned by NATO on (2), I don's use flash--at all.
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r0ckface
05/08/09

@bosskev: You just don't know how to use it properly yet that's all. There are lots of times where a flash can be used that don't make your pictures look like garbage. EG: 1/2s shutter and a flash work great for freezing your close-up subject, but also letting in enough ambient light to make an interesting background. Rookie.
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bosskev
05/08/09

@r0ckface: Actually, I do know how, I just won't.

No matter what you do--flash through a (necessarily tiny) diffuser like from Gary Fong or Lumiquest, bounce it off of a (hopefully white) wall/ceiling, or do a combination of controlled/reduced flash and natural exposure--a single, camera-mounted flash exposure looks, at the very best, stylized in a way I don't care for or, much more often, flat/lifeless/unnatural. Yes, there are certain effects you can get using the technique you describe, but the fact that a flash was used is almost always evident.

My style of shooting is, and always will be, for the kind of natural/pleasing effects you get from existing light (or, as stated earlier, through a carefully composed studio setting, which I don't do as a still shooter but will do in filmmaking).
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Nick
05/08/09

@bosskev: and plus if i use a flash then she notices and gets all upset. tells me to delete them. blah blah blah
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Homerjay is utterly alone.
11/05/08

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At $11 its $11 more expensive than cropping.
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qbrad
11/05/08

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When are they going to put accelerometers in DSLRs so that you can have a level on the display?!
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Mike Panic
11/05/08

@qbrad: They have been for years, how do you think your vertical photos come out already rotated when you transfer to your computer? In my old 10d and now my 5d, I use the autofocus spots as a guideline to get me in the ballpark.
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qbrad
11/05/08

@Mike Panic: Oh, right. 40D does that. But why no display in the viewfinder?!
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future-proof
11/05/08

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How are you tu use this? How can you look through the viewfinder AND at this at the same time. It might be useful on a tripod but still.

I just use the lines in the viewfinder...

Oh... this is made by Brando. Ok ignore the logical usage issue above.
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lankysob
11/05/08

@future-proof: It's best used with one eye looking through the viewfinder and one eye looking at the level. Sure, for horizontal photos you'll have to turn your body parallel to the ground, but that seems to be what's required. It's levitation, Holmes.
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BeautifulAgony
11/05/08

@lankysob: You sir, are awarded 10 points for the Tenacious D reference!
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discounteggroll
11/05/08

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no USB port?

fake
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