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e6filmuser wrote:
Interesting to see you stacking TCs. Blaker established that you could do this with no loss of quality. However, he found that similar TCs stacked in one sequence might give a central white disc of flare, whereas in a different sequence this did not happen:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Handbook-Scientific-Photography-Alfred-Blaker/dp/0716702851
Thanks Harold. I've just ordered a second hand copy.
I seem to have been very fortunate in happening upon teleconverters that are physically capable of being stacked (from pictures of them I imagine Canon, Sony, Olympus and Panasonic TCs can't be stacked, and maybe the same for Nikon TCs), and which don't give any flare issue that I've noticed.
e6filmuser wrote:
Good luck with all that potential snagging out in the woods!
Its the setup I've been using for several years now. With this latest camera setup I tried numerous flash setups with lens-mounted flash units (Yongnuo and Meike) but despite trying lots of diffusion materials and configurations (and help from John Kimbler, @Dalantech, who is very good with flash), and also trying cross polarisation, I couldn't get illumination that I was comfortable with, particularly with reflective subjects. Out of desperation I took a KX800 setup off of one of my close-up lens on telezoom setups, stretched the arms out, and tried that. The illumination was more like I was used to. Still highly imperfect with reflective subjects, but I decided to live with that; I was burnt out with the fruitless flash configuration experiments. At least I was familiar with the operating characteristics with the KX800.
The diffusers obviously do get in the way sometimes, but the arms give a bit when I push in to an obstruction and I can usually get what I need from it. Sometimes of course it pushes away a branch connected to what the subject is on, in which case I can't get close enough, but that doesn't happen often enough to make me want to go back to a thus far frustrating search for a flash setup which provides illumination I like without getting in the way sometimes.
e6filmuser wrote:
I went over to RC flash years ago. I also use some freestanding, off-camera flash when working at ground level or equivalent.
Harold
The KX800 is fully manual and so quite crude in its controls, but they provide all I need and are very accessible (using right hand thumb, with both hands left in place) and quick to use.
I could be wrong about it (I have been wrong about plenty of other things!), but I've never felt that off-camera flash would work well for what I do (for example following subjects as they move around, in and out of view, often radically changing my angle of attack to get a line on them, and changing magnification often and a lot too).
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But for the ugly (and cheap) setup, I think the pics come out great. 