Thursday, July 23, 2009

New toy (made out of an old toy)

I was doing a little research online to find a good price to sell an old flash for, when I found out it does a trick I didn't know about. Apparently my old SB-50dx flash I've had laying around for years works as a wireless slave! Basically I use my SB-600 flash on my camera and set the SB-50dx anywhere up to 50 feet away, and the SB-600 fires the SB-50dx remotely.

I went out to the old Stuff n' Things storefront where my good friend Justin Love has done some spray paint artwork, and did a quick little test of this system.

This is a little profile shot I took to show how the SB-50dx works. You can see it on the sidewalk, illuminating the wall. While it's not the coolest picture I've ever taken, it was fun to be able to use the wireless flash, and is an exciting glimpse into things I can do later on. Turns out that rather than selling this flash as I had planned, it looks like I'm going to be buying more in bulk!

Nikon d1x, Nikkor 18-70mm at 18mm, F3.5m 1/45th, SB-600 and SB-50dx




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