Interested in strobism?

[Sean Setters]

... I still want to know where the penguin came from. Do they even HAVE penguins in Japan?

Actually, yes, they do have penguins in quite a few places...including the Asahiyama, Kyoto Municipal, Shimane Vogel Park, and Ueno zoos. :-)

[lculpin]

Zoos are cheating I was thinking indigenous to the area kinda thing


They should've used a picture of an old civil-war era cannon instead :P

[Chuck Lee]

Thanks Sean.


I've been off-line while heavily involved with a second project on top of my very demanding day time project. From what I see, this looks great and should really help all those looking at strobist style photography. I have a couple of things to add but will write those off-line then post here.

[Mark Elberson]

They'll tell you everything you need to know about photographing penguins using off-camera flash.
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<p style="CLEAR: both"]Definitely one of the funniest things I've ever read on this forum!

[Keith B]

They'll tell you everything you need to know about photographing penguins using off-camera flash.
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<p style="CLEAR:both;"]Definitely one of the funniest things I've ever read on this forum!

Didn't know humor was acceptable here.

[Garrett-Grimsley]

Amazing thread, love the effort put into this. I have always been awed by strobits, and i've been wanting to get into it for a very long time now. This may help me find my way. [H]

[Cozen]

Great job Sean. Your help is much appreciated. Now people can come to one single thread. I look forward to your follow up.





Might I suggest links on this thread to places for getting gear? (if that is allowed?)

[Sean Setters]

Now people can come to one single thread. I look forward to your follow up.


Might I suggest links on this thread to places for getting gear? (if that is allowed?)

My original intent was to put all the info in a single thread. However, since there is so much information, I may actually span its entirety over a few threads (maybe 4?) and provide links to each thread in all of them. Have it set up like chapters in a book where you can go straight to the chapter you want.


I could put some more links in if you want. I provided some links throughout the post, but if you want them all bundled in a single place in the thread I suppose I could do that. Is that what you want? Or did you want to suggest your own places?

[clemmb]

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Sean


I remember you stating that the Vivtar 285 could only be turned down to 1/8th I think. I can not find where I saw your comment. I have several 285s and one 283 myself. I remember there was an accessory that you could replace the auto sensor on the 283 with a Vivtar VP-1 to manually adjust the power out as follows: 1/64, 1/32, 1/16, 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, and full power. Here is a link to the discontinued item but maybe you can find on e-bay.


Vivitar VP-1


Mark

[Mark Elberson]

I remember you stating that the Vivtar 285 could only be turned down to 1/8th I think.
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<p style="CLEAR: both"]The Vivitar 285HV skips 1/8. It can be set to 1/1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/16.