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D3200 Speedlight for Close/WideAngle nightclub photography?
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<blockquote data-quote="sOnIc" data-source="post: 591328" data-attributes="member: 15861"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">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.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">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.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><img src="http://www.flitemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0040.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">Reasons for buying a speedlight are:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">1/ To eliminate the lens shadow you get from the onboard flash projecting a dark semicircle at the bottom of pics.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">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.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">I cannot afford to go top of the range, so I'm looking at the cheaper speedlights such as Neewer and <span style="color: #333333">Yongnuo.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #333333"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #333333">My main questions are:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #333333">1/ Some flashlights say "</span><span style="color: #393939">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?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #393939">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?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #393939"></span>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?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'">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?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #393939">Any help or recommendations appreciated as I don't know anything about speedlights at the moment.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #393939">Cheers,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #393939">Chris</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'verdana'"><span style="color: #393939"></span>All my club photography here, just over a years experience at it and learned a lot: <a href="http://www.flitemedia.com/photography/club-nights/" target="_blank">Club Nights Photography | Flite Media</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sOnIc, post: 591328, member: 15861"] [SIZE=3][FONT=verdana]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. [IMG]http://www.flitemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/DSC_0040.jpg[/IMG] 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 [COLOR=#333333]Yongnuo. My main questions are: 1/ Some flashlights say "[/COLOR][COLOR=#393939]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?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#393939]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? [/COLOR]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? [COLOR=#393939]Any help or recommendations appreciated as I don't know anything about speedlights at the moment.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#393939]Cheers,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#393939]Chris [/COLOR]All my club photography here, just over a years experience at it and learned a lot: [URL="http://www.flitemedia.com/photography/club-nights/"]Club Nights Photography | Flite Media[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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