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Do Pentax users prefer flash or LEDs?

Started Oct 10, 2020 | Discussions thread
Holger Bargen Veteran Member • Posts: 4,911
Re: Do Pentax users prefer flash or LEDs?
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JasonTheBirder wrote:

A lot of people have mentioned the superior power of flashes. However, the biggest advantage for the flash is that it freezes motion. It's quite helpful for things that move like slowly moving insects or flowers that might sway a little in the wind. For high-powered macro, even random vibrations can mess up an image.

The flah freezes motion if you let the flash control the light at 100%. If you want the flash just for brightening shaddows depending on the exposure time you may get a mix of not sharp aspects as well as frozen aspects from the flash. That's some kind of a ghosting effect. Of course you can use this effect for creative results - but in general it's soemthing you want to avoid. If your camera-flash combination allows HSS - shorter exposure times while using flashlight - you may overcome this problem. But HSS at shorter exposure times reduces power of the flash significantly.

An advantage of LED would be that you can work in boost mode and do any of the newer techniques that combine multiple photos like in-camera HDR, Image stacking for larger DOF etc.

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