I watched the video, although I admit I had one eye on something else and
didn't give it my full attention. However, wrong as I may be, I seem to recall
that in the shot he demonstrated taken of a woman standing probably no more
than 8-10 feet away, the exposure was at f/1.4. Spreading all that light
around seems to eat up a lot of them lumen things.
It ain't the $39. I've paid both more, and less, than that for crap that I
thought would be wonderful, but that never got out of the closet after I tried
it out one time. Hell, I spent just under $100 for a monopod from Adorama a
couple of years ago that collapses everytime it touches the ground.
Good luck. Didn't mean to fire off your test button. :-)
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: NSURIT@xxxxxxx
>
>
> In a message dated 10/24/2005 10:43:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
> hiwayman@xxxxxxx writes:
>
> Considering all the contraptions that can be conjured up and cobbled
> together on the cheap for the diffusion of flash illumination, I continue to
> be
> amazed that people actually buy some of the ready-made stuff, especially the
> high-priced, fancy kind. Maybe some just have more bread. :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> Although I probably spend way too much time on this list and with
> photography in general, I do still have a job (and some very good employees)
> and
> can
> afford the $39 plus shipping for this hi-tech milk jug. The part that is
> puzzling to me is why someone would spend hundreds and for many, thousands
> of
> dollars on camera equipment and then duct tape some piece of crap on their
> flash
> and go out in public with it. Now what consenting photographers do behind
> closed doors is their business. The guy with the milk jug or part of a
> milk
> jug taped to their flash at a public photo shoot is going to lose some
> creditability in most circles. Yes, I will continue to look for ways to
> solve
> problems on the cheap this isn't one of those cases for me. Did I ever tell
> you
> how I used the white trash bag to . . . [{8^) Bill Barber
>
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