June 10, 2008
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Playing around with my new cameras today and noticing that the little pop up flash can’t reach over the 17-55mm lens. Must only be good with the smaller prime lenses that arn’t so large. You can really notice the shadow at the bottom of the image of the lens shade. I took this photo of my back room production area where I do all my computer editing and retouching. Notice all my old celeb clients from years ago.
Comments (7)
wow…quite a shadow…yea my pop up flash is like that with my regular lenses…I think it’ll okay be okay with my small primes… sad…cuz I rarely is ever use the popup (basically when i’m lazy and I think the popup will work), and when i do use it, I always forget that it’ll leave that shadow.
You switched back to Nikon!?!
congratulations on your ‘sun see hahng’…ask a cantonese speaking person what that is …hehehe
….ok…i just googled the word and it seems i’m the only guy on the web using this term on the world wide web.
oh dang, with the D300?
did you try the pop up flash without the hood? because the D70s has the same problem, with the 18-200VR and the 18-70 3.5
I thought that was a common problem amongst SLRs, did that happen with the 5d too?
That’s too bad about the shadow! I haven’t had that happen on my D50. I hope it doesn’t happen on the D200 – which I hope to get later this summer!!
People, people, calm yourselves! SHADOW HAPPENS.
It doesn’t matter what camera you’re using; if your lens is wide enough and the hood is big enough, you’ll get a shadow. Either zoom in, take the hood off, whatever you need to do…
Usually, you just aren’t going to find yourself shooting like that anyway. I only ever really use my pop-up flash to command other wireless flashes, in which case I dial the pop-up flash WAY down or something, OR I’m just using it outdoors to do a bare minimum of fill-flash. In both situations, the shadow is not noticeable…
But yeah, that is one MASSIVE hood on the 17-55! I love it, it’s like an airbag for my camera if I ever drop it and it lands lens-down…
=Matt=
Oh I thought that was your head! tehe