thanks for sharing

if the A4 paper is thick, will the flash go thru? i try to use tissue before and result is the tissue very smelly of burn

is that a d80?

thats the d50.

Yup, exposure compensation. It will not look washed out because it is not direct flash. You need to play around with the compensation because u'd get different results in different lighting conditions. Whenever you wanna do this trick and don't wanna do too much post processing, just bump the exposure compensation up. Sometimes your camera wont be able to compensate for the exposure fully and you'd need post processing to bump the exposure up, so always take in RAW. The only problem I ran into is I always forget to set the compensation level back after im done taking picture with it

Direct flash + diffuser still looks very crappy to me, bouncing is the only way. Tissue paper works fine as diffuser, but if you shoot the flash directly, you will still get hard shadows and what not. The cigarette box works well as a bouncer anyway

and yes, that's a D50...poor man like me can't afford D80

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Mar 22 2007, 03:01 AM

waa... very good idea aaa use rubber band + white card.. i saw people using dat film case.. u kno when u buy film, that white cylindrical case

I've got a couple of em at home
Who wants? Lelong..rm10 each..HAHAHA.. nola..joking..

using film case is diffusing, not bouncing though.

ya ya ya.. aiyokk~ confuse with the term laa thanx for correcting~

wah, so tempting! that explains a lot bout SB400.
i might get one later. thnx 4 sharing TS.

anyone else have sb400? can share experience and knowledge?

check out Ken Rockwell website for the SB-400 review. I was thinking of SB600 but now leaning back to SB400. COol DIY bounce.........

i heard someone did this on the SB400 :
twist the flash head 90deg up. there's a gap to slot in a business card just behind the flash head. you'll get a nice balance of ceiling & card bounced light (most ppl carry a white biz card in the wallet )

that's the traditional way of using the bounce card. The sb400 will give you most of what you'd need, but the sb600 and sb800 will give you alot more flexibility. Here's a softlight bounce card I made following this tutorial:


bounce to the front

bounce to rear wall

you can also point the flash to the side and bounce it off a side wall, all sorts of wonderful thing you can play around if your flash can rotate.

here's the original turotial:
http://www.abetterbouncecard.com/

ps: the tutorial didn't use a diffuser with the card, I chose to use it coz I find that without the diffuser, there's still some harsh shadow when taken in short distance.

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Mar 24 2007, 02:14 AM

yeah i've seen the betterbouncecard video before & it's great & flexible

i think ppl buy SB400 for its small size & a simple business card which can be slot in without any attachment will be handy & mobile. that the whole selling point of D40+SB400 - compact & mobile package

i agree with u on the compact and mobile package..

the weight of my sis's d80 is so dam heavy.. lugging it around is tiring...

plus d40 + sb400 is kida cute.... mini dslr... lol

Wifi_One, got try ur flash to be bounce like this?



get it from photomalaysia

that's somthing new.. hmm... might try it... will post pic when i do..

where can get the cheapest SB400?
can get less than rm400?

Went for survey for speedlight to use with my D40, this photoshop ask me to take another brand of speedlight (forgotten the brand) cos she said its performance same as SB800 but a lot cheaper. Can I go for the 3rd party one or better get the original one?

original one
guy i selling SB400 one
new set