Pat Filice
Member
Will the Alien Bee system work seemlessly with the Canon D60?
Is the D60 autofocus pre-flash going to trigger the strobes?
Pat
Is the D60 autofocus pre-flash going to trigger the strobes?
Pat
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Alien Bees and D60
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padeye99656
Veteran Member
If you don't have pre-flash turned off You cannot work with any standard slave. Browse some of the posts here as there are a number of simple options for wired and wireless operation with studio strobes. FWIW I don't believe the pre-flash is used for focusing any camera.
Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
Yes.
No, because you won't be using the onboard flash.
Taken yesterday with a D60, 60" umbrella, and an AB B400 for the hair light.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
p.s.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
The autofocus assist isn't a strobe and doesn't trigger any lights. The pre-flash comes from either the on-board or hot shoe mounted flash and is used to determine exposure. The latter is what folks have problems with.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
Lisa O
Veteran Member
Anyone using the D60 with Alien Bees and Sekonic 308 and a wizard system?
What exactly do you need to ge it all working together?
I just ordered an Alien Bee set up and got a Sekonic 308.
What exactly do you need to ge it all working together?
I just ordered an Alien Bee set up and got a Sekonic 308.
There are plenty of threads about how to make the bees wireless with various cameras and the wizards.
Mark Lutz
http://www.visionsphotography.us
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Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
I am, sort of. But I'm not using all AB lights.
It's really pretty simple. The PW transmitter goes in your hot shoe. The receiver connects via a mini-phone jack to one of your lights (I connect mine to my fill light). The lights that are not attached to a receiver are triggered by their internal slaves.
Once you install the PW module in your meter, you have to set the channel on the meter to match the channel on your PW's (usually channel 1).
If you're using the PW remotes those get connected to the RJ11 phone jacks on the lights.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
It's really pretty simple. The PW transmitter goes in your hot shoe. The receiver connects via a mini-phone jack to one of your lights (I connect mine to my fill light). The lights that are not attached to a receiver are triggered by their internal slaves.
Once you install the PW module in your meter, you have to set the channel on the meter to match the channel on your PW's (usually channel 1).
If you're using the PW remotes those get connected to the RJ11 phone jacks on the lights.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
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Jack A. Zucker
Guest
Nice pix paul.
I notice jpg artifacts on some of your newest pix. You may want to use a bit less compression...
Jaz
http://www.jackzucker.com
I notice jpg artifacts on some of your newest pix. You may want to use a bit less compression...
Jaz
--Yes.
No, because you won't be using the onboard flash.
Taken yesterday with a D60, 60" umbrella, and an AB B400 for the
hair light.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
http://www.jackzucker.com
Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
Thank, Jaz. Re the artifacts, it must be my eyes because I don't see them. But there are two issues:
1. I never used to sharpen for the web and I am now.
2. I'm reducing quite a bit more with the D60 than I did with the G2 to end up with the same final size.
I'm saving as jpg 9.
Any thoughts?
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
1. I never used to sharpen for the web and I am now.
2. I'm reducing quite a bit more with the D60 than I did with the G2 to end up with the same final size.
I'm saving as jpg 9.
Any thoughts?
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
I notice jpg artifacts on some of your newest pix. You may want to
use a bit less compression...
Jaz
--Yes.
No, because you won't be using the onboard flash.
Taken yesterday with a D60, 60" umbrella, and an AB B400 for the
hair light.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
http://www.jackzucker.com
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Jack A. Zucker
Guest
What tool are you using to reduce? Are you doing it in photoshop? I looked at some of your other galleries and I see some of the artifacting in other galleries as well. It's more prominant in some images than others.
For example, the 021031a-40 thumbnail and enlargement have artifacting halos around the subjects head...Are you using a 3rd party tool to generate the resized pix and thumbnails? Maybe it's the culprit?
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Simon-Ph
Senior Member
I may be wrong but... I think the 308 does not take any pw module (only the 358 or 608 is pw ready). Nevertheless, it does allow a synchro cord connection.
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Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
Just PS. And boy, I don't see anything unusual. I'm looking at the jpg and original size psd file in PS right now and the info palette gives me the same numbers around his head for both. I don't know what's going on.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
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Jack A. Zucker
Guest
I downloaded one of your images and took a look at the metadata. Compression is listed as 37.3 compared to 6.3 for a file I saved as jpg 8.
The comment in the metadata says "Lead Technologies Inc...".
My guess is that you are using some other image processing tool to generate your web pages or thumbnails and it's compressing your images more than you think!
Jaz
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The comment in the metadata says "Lead Technologies Inc...".
My guess is that you are using some other image processing tool to generate your web pages or thumbnails and it's compressing your images more than you think!
Jaz
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Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
Something really strange is going on. I downloaded a file also and it was only 13K or so in size while the same file on my HD is 34K. It must be something that FrontPage is doing that I wasn't aware of. I'll try to figure it out over the weekend. Thanks for catching it.
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
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Jack A. Zucker
Guest
OK Paul...I think I see what's going on...
You're using frontpage and you're adding an image to the page by clicking on the insert picture and selecting the file from another directory. What you may not realize is that frontpage copies that image into your "web" and it must be set to use a higher compression than what the original file was saved at.
That's what's going on...
I find it interesting that the file is encoded as "Lead Technologies, Inc"...Microsoft must have licensed some technology - typical MS tactic - and put their logo on it...
I never noticed if frontpage has a compression level setting...
http://www.jackzucker.com
You're using frontpage and you're adding an image to the page by clicking on the insert picture and selecting the file from another directory. What you may not realize is that frontpage copies that image into your "web" and it must be set to use a higher compression than what the original file was saved at.
That's what's going on...
I find it interesting that the file is encoded as "Lead Technologies, Inc"...Microsoft must have licensed some technology - typical MS tactic - and put their logo on it...
I never noticed if frontpage has a compression level setting...
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Jack A. Zucker
Guest
Paul,
In frontpage you can right click on a picture, goto the properties and look at the compression. The default is 75%. I bet you inadvertantly lowered yours and it must take the last custom setting as the default...
Jaz
In frontpage you can right click on a picture, goto the properties and look at the compression. The default is 75%. I bet you inadvertantly lowered yours and it must take the last custom setting as the default...
Jaz
Paul Ferrara
Senior Member
It's still 75%. But when you consider that the jpg had already been compressed no wonder it's a problem. And there is nowhere in the program that permits you to change that to 100% except image properties.
This is a royal pain. I never use FP to upload anyway so I'll just upload the images from my original folder rather than from the web folder. I think I did that originally anyway but switched somewhere along the line.
I guess I'll re-upload the ones I still have on my HD and won't worry about the others for now. But thanks for the catch! What an eye!
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
This is a royal pain. I never use FP to upload anyway so I'll just upload the images from my original folder rather than from the web folder. I think I did that originally anyway but switched somewhere along the line.
I guess I'll re-upload the ones I still have on my HD and won't worry about the others for now. But thanks for the catch! What an eye!
Paul
http://www.paulsportraits.com
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Jack A. Zucker
Guest
No problem Paul...The other thing you can do is just copy over the files in the FP directory once you've added them to your page...
I hate Frontpage. I'd love to find something else...
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Christopher A. Wichura
Forum Enthusiast
Still easy enough to do, though. I use MultiMAXes, but I presume all the base transmitter units also have the PC Sync input jack in addition to the hot shoe tigger pin. So hang the transmitter from your wrist by it's lanyard, connect its PC Sync jack to the PC Sync port on the meter with a short cable (the MultiMAXes come with a 1' cable) and fire away using the meter. Not as convienient as having the internal PocketWizard transmitter in the meter, as you'll be moving the transmitter back and forth between the camera and the meter (or you buy two transmitters).
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