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What flash will need for " in the dark " wildlife photography with a minolta srt101 camara? |
I have an old minolta srt101 and I am trying to photograph wildlife at night. Ebay is full of flashguns but I dont know which will fit my old camara ...and provide enough light for " black dark!" photography! its needed were there is no light it helps it show much more than in the dark You will need a flash with either an auto setting (a little sensor built into the flash to detect light bouncing off the subject) and a range of manual settings, as the SRT101 pre-dates through the lens flash metering. You can buy old professional non-dedicated Metz flashes of various powers pretty cheaply. It is a good idea to get the most powerful flash that you can, and make sure that you get the cords so that you can mount it as far from the lens as practicable. Otherwise, you get red-eye in your subject. Flashes that have a pre-flash setting are not so good for wildlife as the pre-flash tends to frighten it away. For the best results two flashes, fairly widely spaced, are probably best for even lighting (don't make it too even or it will appear flat and lifeless) The difficulty with photographing animals at night is getting accurate focus, and the SRT101 is a manual focus camera. Telephoto lenses are pretty "dark" to look through so you will need to either have a powerful torch to aim along to focus with, or alternatively, a trigger fired by a complex set up of infra-red beams where the camera is focused on the intersection. When the beams are broken, the camera fires and you get your photo. Such set-ups are costly though, and if you are going to go down that route you might as well spend your money on a digital SLR. If you are thinking of going digital (and I never picked up a film camera again after I bought a digital SLR) check out www.dpreview.com for information and discussion on different models. Photographing wildlife (except for small stuff) generally requires some pretty expensive kit. I do a lot of macrophotography and spend a lot of time crawling about at night photographing frogs and the like. I used manual flashes, manual focus for many years (I still use a twenty year old flash on my hi tech digital for macrophotography). For close-up work I use two relatively low powered flashes, one triggered by the first going off -this is known as a "slave" flash. You can buy slave triggers for any manual flash relatively inexpensively. The greatest challenge to photographing wildlife using flash is getting the exposure right. It takes a lt of practice to know what f-stop to use with your flash output.. Modern cameras can take a lot of the guesswork out of that and you can get an idea almost instantly of whether the shot was well exposed. I hope this helps. www.pbase.com/gehyra |
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