I think I must be quite fortunate in not having many lenses and kit to choose from then.

When I go bush walking I take the 18-55 kit lens and the tammy 70-300, a spare set of batteries and a spare SD card. That pretty much coveres everything for me. I have a greater need for water than I do camera stuff so my back pack tends to get rather heavy without much equipment in it.

The only addition to that will be the 100mm macro when I finally get it.

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PaulM

Just rang them, 11 left apparently. One of which will be arriving at my mums house tomorrow

Dam you RichardDay for bring this to my attention
I've been after a macro lens for ages

Has yours arrived yet?

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PaulM

Slowing down and activiely thinking about the image thats going to be reporduced rather than looking at what I can currently see.

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PaulM

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Mannesty our posts crossed, but thats what I have just discovered.

So its more likely to be a pre flash than the camera taking control and trying to balance the scene?

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PaulM

Thanks Hefty,

I do want to get an AF-360 but I just cant quite justify a new one to the wife yet, would that emit a pre-flash?

Interestingly though I have just been having another play and after changing the lens I started to get what I was expecting

I was initially using my sigma 55-200 1:4-5.6DC lens (with no f ring) which was producuing the random results.

So I tried switching to an old Tokina 28-70 1:3.5-4.5 SD KA mount as it was to hand. I had the lens set to f22 and the shutter at 1/180 and it was way over exposed. So after moving the flashes further away and using a bodged up diffuser made from a plastic milk container I started to get consistant well lit results.

I need to try some other lenses (the 18-55 kit lens because its my only other lens ith no aperture ring, some of my other K and KA mounts and the Tammy 70-300 because its the most modern lens I have with an aperture ring) but it seems like with the sigma on, the K200D was still trying to compensate for the for the amount of light and hence the inconsistant resuts, even when I had it set to M mode and set the f stop and shutter myself.

I will have a try with some more lenses this weekend and see what I get

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PaulM

McBrian,

Pretty certain that there is no pre flash, I only see one pulse from the pop up. The only time I seem to get a pre flash is when I use the 2 sec timer. I do get a strobe effect whe it tries to focus in low light but I keep the button half pressed until I can see the charge/ready light on both the flash before I fully press it.

Manesty,
I dont have a flash that I am confident of the trigger voltage so the optical slaves looked like a good compromise.

I am going to have another play tonight to see what I can get. If it still looks rubbish I will get a set of Cactus radio triggers after Christmas I think.

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PaulM

Thanks Chris,

Yes both flashes were set to manual and they have no power control so they were firing at full power from about 300mm-400mm away from the subject (a bowl fo fruit). I had the camera set to manual and I am pretty certain that both flashes where fully charged before each shot.

I was just expecting very over exposed images with three flashes and was surprised to see some under exposed ones especially as I was down at f4.xx with quite a low shutter speed.

In fact the results seemed to be quite random some times ok and some times under exposed, no I think about it I dont think I got any that where over exposed.

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PaulM

Hi All,

I splashed out a whole $45 on some optical triggers to use with my K200D some of my old flashs that I got for use my ME super. They arrived yesterday and I was eager to have a play.

So Last night I was using the following flash's with the optical triggers
Vivitar 550FD
Cobra D400

I had both flash units set to manual and the pop up flash set to -2 and I was playing with the aperture and the shutter speed to see what would happen.

Two things I thought were wierd, the first was that I couldn't get much more than 1/45 or 1/60 even when going down to f4.xx the other was that some times I got an under exposed image.

So I guess my questions are how come I got an under exposed image with three flash unit when what I expected was over exposed and why can I get a quicker shutter time?

Or is all of that normal ?

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PaulM

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