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Small sensor Powershot for macro photography

Started Dec 14, 2018 | Discussions thread
saaber1 Senior Member • Posts: 2,164
Re: Small sensor Powershot for macro photography
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Asla wrote:

Hi!

Oh, sorry. I missed that hot shoe is needed.

You might get more power, more macro with adiitional close-up lenses...

A s l a

I don’t see why a hot shoe is needed personally. OP can use any flash that has an optical slave mode and use the built in flash to trigger it. Very inexpensive but good quality flashes are available such as yongnuo for $30 used to $75ish new. External flash gives way more options for the right angle of lighting, using multiple flashes, light modifiers etc. Hot shoe is only needed for ttl, which personally I would never use for macro work.  Studio flashes can be triggered with optical slave which are cheap and reliable.

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