Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use it often for fill in sunlight. It is really useful for this use. Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:06 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information