sOnIc
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Hi there .. I've done pretty well at nightclub photography with the kit lens, onboard flash, and a screw-on 0.5x wide angle adapter, but its time to move up a level.
My typical shots at the moment are F3.5, 1/4th second rear-curtain flash, with flash exposure compensation at about -1ev. Spin flash shots with about 45 degrees of spin before the flash. Processed with RAW tools and levels etc in Photoshop.
Reasons for buying a speedlight are:
1/ To eliminate the lens shadow you get from the onboard flash projecting a dark semicircle at the bottom of pics.
2/ To replace the on-board auto-focus illuminator bulb with a less annoying red auto-focus assist light (turning the onboard AF bulb off), as it's annoying to people being very bright.
I cannot afford to go top of the range, so I'm looking at the cheaper speedlights such as Neewer and Yongnuo.
My main questions are:
1/ Some flashlights say "Lens Coverage 18mm - 180mm" .. Sometime soon i'm gonna buy a Tokina 11-16mm, so does this mean the speedlight cannot work with a lens below 18mm at all?
2/ Some descriptions say "Front Curtain Sync" .. but I need the speed light to work with Rear curtain sync .. do all speedlights work with my typical rear-flash shots using the camera's settings?
3/ Do all these cheap speedlights have the red-light method of auto-focus illumination, so I can switch the camera's white light bulb off?
So I'm looking at the Neewer NW580/VK750 - would that do it? Or what has the Mark II version got which the Mark 1 has not?
Any help or recommendations appreciated as I don't know anything about speedlights at the moment.
Cheers,
Chris
All my club photography here, just over a years experience at it and learned a lot: Club Nights Photography | Flite Media
My typical shots at the moment are F3.5, 1/4th second rear-curtain flash, with flash exposure compensation at about -1ev. Spin flash shots with about 45 degrees of spin before the flash. Processed with RAW tools and levels etc in Photoshop.
Reasons for buying a speedlight are:
1/ To eliminate the lens shadow you get from the onboard flash projecting a dark semicircle at the bottom of pics.
2/ To replace the on-board auto-focus illuminator bulb with a less annoying red auto-focus assist light (turning the onboard AF bulb off), as it's annoying to people being very bright.
I cannot afford to go top of the range, so I'm looking at the cheaper speedlights such as Neewer and Yongnuo.
My main questions are:
1/ Some flashlights say "Lens Coverage 18mm - 180mm" .. Sometime soon i'm gonna buy a Tokina 11-16mm, so does this mean the speedlight cannot work with a lens below 18mm at all?
2/ Some descriptions say "Front Curtain Sync" .. but I need the speed light to work with Rear curtain sync .. do all speedlights work with my typical rear-flash shots using the camera's settings?
3/ Do all these cheap speedlights have the red-light method of auto-focus illumination, so I can switch the camera's white light bulb off?
So I'm looking at the Neewer NW580/VK750 - would that do it? Or what has the Mark II version got which the Mark 1 has not?
Any help or recommendations appreciated as I don't know anything about speedlights at the moment.
Cheers,
Chris
All my club photography here, just over a years experience at it and learned a lot: Club Nights Photography | Flite Media
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