Sorry was bored.
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PS. I've used two photos don't know if that's allowed?

beter not too buy a mono cheap, they tend to bend witch make them awefull to use
So save some money and buy a good one, the same counts for tripods btw.

Have fun picking a tripod and a head of-course

If LCD would provide only information and not the view itself that would be great, no more switching those matt screen to get a rules of third and what to think of adaptive information.


The biggest problem at the moment is the lag, you get seasick if you look through it too long and move alot
I was trying out a panasonic G1 for a minute

Tony if you use an 1.5 tc at 200mm you get 300mm so not sure if that's worth it? and 250 would be 375mm that sounds a lot but really isn't so much more then 300mm you might be better off cropping the photo to be honest.

Sorry tony I can't follow you there, the DA 55-300 is already good wide open so use that and iso400 or what needed to keep your shutterspeed down, if shutterspeeds gets to high and you cant keep the lens still you get blurry photos so better to have more noise then that.

I hope that helps Tony
with kind regards,
Stefan

Could you post some of the photos, the bad and the good ones.
I'm sure we can give you far more tips then, since we're now i the dark what went wrong

Hello Tony and welcome to the forum.

With all TC you lose light and image quality, there is nothing you can do about it.
The more expensive TC might preform better then some of the cheaper ones and also less magnifications helps a lot.

with tc around the 1.5x you would lose one stop and with 2x 2 stops of light. so f/5.6 would be f/8 with one stop and f/11 with two stops.

With such zooms like you've a TC of 1.5X or 1.4X is the best with 2X you lose too much light and AF would certainly not work although with 1.5X you atleast have a change it might.

Welcome to the forum.
I'm no expert but can give you some tips.

1. that depends on the ditance from the subject to the flash, and also the settings of your apeture and ISO on you camera.

2. Since you've complete controll and that light doesn't varries use M mode on your camera and flash and simply try till you get it right.

3. no need to answer that one anymore

So set everything in M mode and start with the flash on 1/4th of the power and the correct zoom settings you need for the umbrella, the flash needs to fill the umbrella just.
Camera starting point would be f5.6 and iso 100 the shutterspeeds isn't so important since you're working with flash light, use 100 or 80 so that you get a little bit of other lights in your shot.

if the photo is to dark you can,
- use a lower f-number
- move the flash closer
- heigthen the flash power
- use an heiger iso

If the photo is to bright do it the other way around.
I hope this helps a bit, just play around till you get it right.

The camera on the first photo looks different then the one on the last photo, they arent the same I think.




Here you see the line of a flash most likely and in the second you don't see it and the viewfinder in the second photo looks much flatter.

And we want to be diplomatic so yes thank you, will change that

Still need to look up a lot and at a little explaination what the word means.

Gecondoleert Martin en je family,
veel sterkte in deze trieste tijd.
It's good to hear from you again.