Angela, it depends on how old the Greek is

They work and wacom is considered the best, nothing more to say.
You might find the small version too small but you will only find out if you try.

Mike, hat might be the problem, have been reading the main page and have rad the 101 and that was decent but the main page is mostly talk like on most blogs

KZ, photography are the Greeks words φῶς (phos) "light" and γραφή (graphê) "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light".
And from what I understand what strobist means it's about how you use a flashgun, so saying that it includes every kind of light is a stretch.

Beside that point.
I'm just saying that off camera lighting is just too advance for some uses/types of photography, nothing more nothing less. Certainly when you will only use the flash 2 times a year, I find it too much to say that you must learn how the flash works and that you must use it off camera.

ps. What's the definition of the word strobist?
The only one giving some insight is the urbandictonary but that one isn't even official link

It's just the amount of chatter on it that does not appeal to me, you need to dig for the useful information, at least that's my experience and personal view about the site.
There is for the rest nothing wrong with it but just not mine site.

I see why using off camera flash is important but it just is too advance for most type of shooting, you also need to have quite a lot of understanding about flash set-up and one flash is not sufficient most of the time or without the use of an reflector but that's far to difficult for the click and be happy family photos. Just aim the flash to the ceiling and you get quite natural light and it's easy to use and not time consuming.

Oh no not the strobist.com
Bouncing the flash already make a lot of difference and that's just what most here would need/want.

Of course a symmetrical face is better since they are more beautiful. no question about that.

Don't know if it has to do with the topic here though since the overall features are different.

Security guard can hold you till the police arrive right, at least I believe it's true here?

I've used the 100mm a lot of times and used f/2.8 sometimes.
Here is the shot.


Was taken at a photo course and we used constant lighting here with, so they didn't had the output of the flash-units and we applied the light subtle.
Most of them were indeed shooting at f/4 but I thought I could do it at f/2.8 with careful manual focus and as you see it can be done. The others all had blurred photos because the shutter-speeds became too long.

With flash thought you will be around f/4 most of the time since that gives enough DOF and probably your flash limits you that since with lower f-numbers you overexpose. f/8 can of course also be used, it's just what you need. f/4 gives you 25cm and f/8 double that depending on the work distance and focal length.

ps. the DOF with the photo was around 10cm, used 100mm lens at f/2.8 and the distance was around the 3 meters.

Yeah it's easy thing to give them a minus point for that, something like handling would be harder to measure

Just for the note, the Nikon D5000 use the same sensor as the KX so it's easy to see if the review is framed if they gave them more points on that

The FA's limited are all better in most fronts, the DA's are sharper though.

If you want the wide aperture then a FA50/DA*55 would preform better but it's a different focal length.

I don't own one though.