hey mike, congrat and good idea on flash thread.

btw, could you add "*discountinued" on the flash model which is discountinue, so it wont make some new comer trying to dig the market for model which is discoutinue, and put a footnote for discontinued model can only be found as 2nd hand.

btw, picture that is not excately shot by flash gun, or strobe light, but 'hot light' welcome or not? or just hotshoe flash allowed?

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Added on July 13, 2010, 1:01 pmDi866 is a powerful flash (as in the distance it can lit up) but quote from a friend(nikon) who uses it "inconsistance" so u have to learn to use to use it in manual mode (troublesome)

there is a reason why people who used origin brand flash would recommend u to get the origins one. because they are just too reliable.

430EXII is good enough if u shoot casually, family and friends. unless u going for events(school/college/public) or wedding, its better to get the top model 580EXII.

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order the parts urself, the fresnel lens no need(front plate). change it urself.

last time change 1 wide panel and batt door cover (i dropped the flash) i was quoted 4xx... order the parts cost me rm2xx and i fixes it myself. just careful with the flash discharge, i got shocked

strobist is anything to do with 'recreate light' onto ur photo. even bounce flash mount on ur camera is consider strobist, just the most boring strobe method

TTL is basically means auto it does a pre-flash to detect the power required to balance the ev on the photo.

14mm is wide. and 200mm is snoot. if u shoot with a 18mm lens, and snoot the flash at 200mm... go try it, and learn the result

Demb is good. actually, all in the market flash modifier are good. just that, u must learn how to use it to your advantage

i always shoot with built in bounce card. that all i need.

no, its like u see a 'light' in the middle while ur wide area is dark... like thos UFO beeming u up light... lol

yup yup~~ like vigneting,... so now u know how the 200mm zoom flash will show up in the picture of wide angle, that is how the flash will travel also when u set the flash zoom to auto, it will follow the length/shape of ur zoom lens. if u zoom to 200mm to shoot, the flash will zoom too so it wont waste its flash power to lit the corner, but focus in the middle

boyzone, most ring flash are tend for macro, if for portraiture, it depends, if u have bad iso body with F5.6 lens, u have to get pretty close for the ringflash to be effective. but if u have a great iso1600+F2.8 lens, i guess u can shoot as far as 3 meter away

got PP? the vigneting looks artificial...

but still, a good work

flash umbrella from above(her left) and behind snot

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yea, rainbow, somehow got into the picture. first time see this type of flare too

magiclover, sorry dont think it can be done, so far,... only 7D can trigger 580exII with pop up.

but i heard the 1D series can trigger other 580 flashes with an 580 attached as commander mode. not sure with 5D

hold the 'zoom' button for 3-5 sec and u will see the 'Wireless flash menu' try figure it out, i still figuring how to trigger other 580 with a 580 mount on 450D... lol

chucky, 580ex2 can act as master on 3digitD body?

niwooe, thanks, nice to hear taht... now have to go try it out... hahah

if u have money, grab a new 580exII

else, all other third party trigger is fine, phottix are good

2000mAh last me about 600 shots with max of 400iso used. (if ur camera can go iso800, the power is half, means u can easily shoot till 1000 shots)

erm shashinki has lots of them....

here are few...

http://shashinki.com/shop/phottix-tetra-pt...ver-p-2708.html

http://shashinki.com/shop/phottix-aster-pt...ver-p-5124.html

Michaelbyz23: shoot through have tendency to bounce back, with small room, it will bounce back and bounce around the ceiling etc, ur whole photo will bright up, u cant do shots like 'dramatic shadow'

u can control ur background light by increase shutter speed, or aperture to control amount of light (flash) to get into the sensor.

yes, umbrella can do directional lighting, by using bouncing (not shoot through) and at a certain angle, or say, u have to understand how light 'leaks' and goes. like abang goldfries said, u have to understand the umbrella itself.

for example: