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Tangents

this is going to hurt you more ..

January 11, 2008

.. than it will hurt me.

The obvious question that comes up when people see how I use flash when I am using them as on-camera flashguns, is … don’t they take a beating or even burn out?

I do hammer my speedlights, especially when I use the Quantum 2×2 battery packs.  This doesn’t bother me greatly, since I regard my speedlights in a way, as consumable items. They will become unrepairable at some point. No real problem for me.

For this reason I have numerous speedlights, because there are inevitably at least one or two in for repairs.

My older speedlights tend to look like this:

Where they take a hard beating, is with events where there is a lot of activity in a short time.  For example, with Jewish weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, you have events like the Hora which happen very fast  and only for a short time.  And you have to get the shots. The equipment matters less.  Don’t fall in love with your equipment and be afraid to use it.

This example is from a recent wedding. My on-camera flash was used in the way I described recently in the posting on my choice of flash modifiers.
(btw, that’s a Q-flash lighting up the background there.)

Getting these images as sequences in the dark reception halls here on the East Coast, takes a lot of juice. (Or rather, the way I do it, requires a lot of juice.)

And no, I wouldn’t buy a used flashgun from me either. ;)

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