Check out Mike Gannaway‘s sweet as flash stand hack! More mounting info on the photo’s page on Flickr.
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Tag: strobe
DIY Diana flash trigger
Check out photographer Don Brice‘s excellent modification that allows you to use normal flash/strobe units on Diana toy cameras:
I enjoy using the Diana in the studio and shooting portraits and still life lit with flash. I discovered long ago that by ripping off the usual connector on the end of the syncro cable, you could bare the two wires and jam them down the two flash sockets on the Diana-F model. Ta-da. Plug the other in to your strobes and away you go…
Continue reading instructions at Brice’s blog, Blurry Thinking.
Homemade strobe slave
Photography enthusiast Nick Pagazani was hindered by the range and fixed location of his camera’s flash. Since his camera has no connector for an external flash, he needed a light-activated slave trigger to fire a remote strobe. It had to ignore the pre-flashes used for red-eye correction and fire only on the main flash. His solution: Use a microcontroller to count pulses from a phototransistor and trigger the strobe at a switch-selectable count. Brighten up your shadowy background with this flashy accessory.
Get parts list and assembly instructions at Design News
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Homemade flash diffusor from take-away container
Flickr member potatomato posted a photo set on how he made a flash diffusor from a plastic take-away container.
He writes:
The Gary Fong Lightsphere is a flash diffuser that is gaining popularity with wedding and portrait photograhers world wide. His product is selling at a pace that the manufacturer can’t keep up with. This Flickr photoset demonstrates the use of a to-go container to make your own.
View photo set on Flickr
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“Starving student” off-camera light kit
The SSO-CLK (for lack of a more poetic term) is designed to give you the most bang for your buck – with a nod toward extreme portability. It will work well with any camera that can be controlled manually and has a PC synch jack. Most SLR’s, digital or film, fit this bill. The flash is a vintage Nikon model, but it will work off-camera with anything that has a PC jack…
Continue reading at Strobist
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