[HUG ] Re: Tote Dat Barge

Dear Uncle Dick,


I use two larger Metz from the 60 series and like to use an 
Omni Bounce with one of them while the other is used with
an umbrella as indirect light source.
Together they are an excellent light source for portraits
all independent from mains supply.

The Omni Bounce is easily fitted over the reflectorhead.
They are available for most flash units including the 45 Metz.

Only disadvantage smaller output, about 1 stop, from the
flash unit. 
As far as I know Omni Bounce is an American product.

Richard

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stein 
  To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:12 PM
  Subject: [HUG ] Tote Dat Barge


  Dear Friends,     

   

   And Lift Dat Bale, And get a little drunk and you can't focus, even with an 
acute matte screen. Which is why I abstain at weddings - a professional 
necessity but a real pain after 9:00 PM. Being the only sober person in a room 
full of drunks is no fun.

   

                  But I digress, I have done another wedding and tried a new 
tack. I took a leaf from some of the wedding manuals and set up a subsidiary 
light to banish some of the darkness from the reception hall behind the main 
subjects. This is old hat to other workers in the field but as I wear old hats 
anyway and this one seems to fit. I cannot say it has saved some shots and 
others where the flash has been in the field of view are distinctly worse, but 
overall I think it has lightened the atmosphere. No-one likes a gloomy wedding, 
unless it is a Goth wedding. Then gloom is charged for as an extra.

   

                  I envy the Nikon digital workers who seem to be able to set 
up battery -powered SB 800's that slave off their cameras with no complex 
wiring and little extra weight. Whether an SB 800 would stand up to 100+ 
continuous flashes in rapid succession is another thing, but the system seems 
like a convenient portable studio.

   

                  My real reason for this posting, in addition to getting the 
list jump-started yet again, is to ask if anyone has a really viable suggestion 
for a flash diffuser or modifier that will improve the on-camera results that I 
get from my standard old Metz CT-1 or CL-1 flashes. I mount them up on a 
handgrip plus bracket that puts the tube above the centreline of the lens but I 
cannot for the life of me think of an effective add-on softbox that would be 
usable without occluding the thyristor sensor. Any ideas?

   

  Uncle Dick

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