the wide panel on flashes

12 years 11 months ago #69423 by Ham1st
how important is the wide panel the pulls down on the flash...mine came off. Is it really important to have it?


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12 years 11 months ago #69425 by serious series
It's a way to diffuse the light without having another modifier, rather than a bare flash. If you bought it local, see if the shop will give you a loaner while it's out. Nevertheless, I would have it repaired if it was mine.


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12 years 11 months ago #69427 by Ham1st

serious series wrote: It's a way to diffuse the light without having another modifier, rather than a bare flash. If you bought it local, see if the shop will give you a loaner while it's out. Nevertheless, I would have it repaired if it was mine.


i purchased it from amazon


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12 years 11 months ago #70177 by MLKstudios
No biggie. If you sometimes you use a super wide lens with the flash, you'll get a nice vignette.

Matthew :)

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MLK Studios Photography School
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12 years 11 months ago #70345 by Henry Peach
It is mostly for wide angle lenses. For instance my flashes have a zoom feature that adjusts the beam wideness or tightness based on focal length, and the normal range is something like 24mm to 105mm. If I pull down the diffusion screen it covers as wide as 14mm. If I were to use a lens between 20ish and 14mm without the diffusion screen the flash would be tighter than the scene covered by the lens, and I might get the vignetting mentioned by MLK Studios.
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12 years 11 months ago #70357 by MLKstudios
If the vignette works against you, you could put about any diffusion material over the flash to spread it out more.

Matthew

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MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
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