Recent content by Kaouthia

Funny, that's one feature I wish I could disable on the SB-900. Sure I want my zoom setting wide, but not necessarily as wide as the flash tells me it wants to be. :)

Thanks Darren, will send it over in a bit. Finally getting to settle down for the evening and eat something. :)

You have a link to that?

Already had a drill press that works surprisingly well (better than I'd expected) for PCBs. Just picked up my first batch of tinning crystals last week to give that a go now I'm trying some bigger boards (not cheap, so holding off until I can make a big batch of boards at once). I use toner...

I'll stick to using Really Useful Boxes for £2 each and buy my chemicals as needed from Rapid. :D

Many flashes over the years have had a plastic shoe. It's the contacts that are important. :)

Wasn't sure what the cleavage shot was all about, but I liked it. ;)

The reports simply seem to be about some bad quality control and a few bad batches getting out. Not that fully working flashes seem to randomly die. As long as you buy from a quality source with a good return/replacement policy, you'll probably be just fine. I heard similar reports on the...

As Cistron says, HSS is just for overpowering the ambient if you're overexposed @ your max sync speed. I was shooting 1/2000th because I was shooting straight into the sun over my subject's shoulder. Without 6 Nikon SBs, my subject would've just been a silhouette. For indoors doing dance...

It sort of can. It has two optical slave modes. One is the regular "see a flash go off and fire" slave mode we've known and loved for years, the other is a "ignore pre-flashes" slave mode which means you can fire it as part of a CLS or wireless TTL setup. I've done that with a pair of...

I never think about that one any more. Either I'm using Nikon CLS and controlling the flash power from my camera, or I have a full time button pusher.. ermm I mean "lighting assistant" with me on portrait shoots. :) But yeah, the battery charging can be a pain (especially if you start adding...

I don't think it's necessarily all that messy, that's why they sell the 3 mount heads. :) I know a couple of people who run 2 or 4 heads simply to lower the power required from each flash for each shot and get faster recycle times. Two heads at half power recycles much faster than a single...

Only because Macs support both Adobe CreativeSuite and FCP (and because a lot of people buy into the overpriced hype without having a clue what the benefits of either platform, if any, are). But with the apparent mess Apple have made of FCP X, and the advantages CS5 has over the former most...

You, or any of your collaborators. And it's better if that "one" platform isn't a Mac. :)

DNxHD, free (but better than ProRes because it's available for more than one platform ;)) from AVID.