{"id":1001,"date":"2007-11-18T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1001"},"modified":"2013-11-23T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T12:34:23","slug":"wet-weather-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wet-weather-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet Weather Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Plenty of rain today. As forecast, but not what I want at the weekend. It did give me a chance though to do some catching up on some of the more mundane tasks associated with digital photography. Like backing up several DVDs-worth of images (and that only took me to the end of August). While I was rooting around, I dug out a very old flash unit (a Canon 188A) which dates back to the early\/mid 1980s. I'd been meaning to see if I could get it to work with my 400D.<\/p>\n

After a little bit of checking on the web, I was confident that it wouldn't actually cause any harm to the electronics on the camera. So I gave it a whirl, setting everything to manual. It's not bad actually and one advantage is that it allows a faster shutter speed than the built-in flash (which is limited to 1\/200). The first shots tended to be massive over-exposures but with some practice I was able to get it under moderate control. One particular gain is that the extra light means I can run macro shots at a higher number aperture (more depth of field).<\/p>\n

I didn't have too much to hand to test it out on so resorted to the old game of a dripping tap!<\/p>\n

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There were many missed shots in the sequence, but the basic functioning was fine. I now need to try it out on something larger (if the foxes show up). The photos are in the Abstracts<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

Camera note: all shots with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro and Canon 188A flash unit<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,228],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-camera","tag-water","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t