Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, the little flash that comes with the X-T2 works fine.? I use it indoors at kid's birthday parties.? Try it, you'll like it. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 9/24/2019 12:05 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Even though I do not care for flash, I love these images. > > My attitude to flash in general was demonstrated just this weekend?after a > year in the garage, my boxes of books and odds and ends were finally > brought into my newly renovated home office. One of the boxes contained > the boxes for various cameras and lenses. Since the new house is smaller > than the rented one in which we lived before, I have to cull a certain > number of items, and those boxes were among them. Before putting them in > the paper recycling bin, I made sure there was nothing useful inside, and > lo and behold?one of the Fuji boxes (either the one for my X-T2 or X-E2) > contained a tiny little flash which I had never bothered removing from the > box. I did keep it, just as a curiosity, although I do not expect to make > any use of it. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> > http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On 17 Sep 2019, at 03:09, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> >> wrote: >> >> While mining my archive as I organize the collection, I found photos I >> took >> when I visited my mentor, Ed Farber at his home. [Ed was a pioneer in >> developing portable electronic flash in the 1940's.] He had invited me to >> be a joint presenter on electronic flash at the Milwaukee Sentinel Active >> Americans event, and I went out to prepare our talk. Ed had designed this >> house himself on a hilltop location that he had picked out by flying over >> southeastern Wisconsin looking for the best site. >> >> This view is from his living room, which had large windows in a zig-zag >> pattern arranged so that the sunset came into the room every day of the >> year. The hilltop overlooks Nagawicka Lake in Delafield, Wisconsin. >> >> < >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Photographers/19810328_MR_FarberHome_B_8.jpg.html >> < >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Photographers/19810328_MR_FarberHome_B_10.jpg.html >> I also digitized Ed's multiple flash demonstration boards that he hauled >> all over the country for seminars. >> < >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Photographers/Ed_Farber_Multi_Strobe_Shots.jpg.html >> < >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Photographers/Ed_Farber_MultiFlash_Bulb_Shots.jpg.html >> < >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Photographers/Ed_Farber_OpenFlash_Shots.jpg.html >> All can be viewed large. >> >> -- >> Alan >> >> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer >> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services >> (Retired) >> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 >> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 >> amr3 at uwm.edu >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ >> >> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate >> for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >