bouncing on board flash?

12 years 11 months ago #60625 by Cays Cove
Can I bounce a built in flash?


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12 years 11 months ago #60627 by Riggs
No, you can't really bounce with the built-in flash.


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12 years 11 months ago #60634 by Screamin Scott
Not only would it be hard to do, but the onboard units are not very powerful, thus their range would be woefully short.

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12 years 11 months ago #60649 by Cays Cove
Thank you Scott. :)


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12 years 11 months ago #61081 by JoAnne Muzila
Don't they have bounce cards that strap onto the camera so that you can bounce the light to a ceiling or close wall as example?


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12 years 11 months ago #61087 by Henry Peach
It doesn't work very good, but in some situations, with a low, white ceiling, it might be better than nothing.

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12 years 11 months ago #63231 by Number 7
I just saw one of these a few weeks ago. There is a company that has these bounce card like things that you connect to top of your camera and it bounces the on camera flash.


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12 years 11 months ago #64023 by Henry Peach
Cut out a piece of translucent white plastic from a milk jug or something, and hold it at an angle in front of the pop-up flash. Some light bounces up and off the ceiling, and some gets diffused through the plastic, and goes straight at the subject. It's like a DIY 80-20 bouncer.
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12 years 11 months ago #64163 by Screamin Scott
JoAnne has a D80...The onboard flash distance (@ISO 100) is 2-9 feet....what do you think the flash distance will be if you put a piece of plastic in front of it? ...maybe 4.5 feet @ ISO 100?...Not worth the time & trouble

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