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Video RGB LED lights for still macro photography?

Started 11 months ago | Questions thread
jarlrmai Regular Member • Posts: 110
Re: Video RGB LED lights for still macro photography?

Part of the reason for using flash when shooting macro of living things like insects is that the flash duration is very short which freezes subject and camera motion, increasing sharpness. Your settings like low ISO, small aperture and fast sync speed block out natural light meaning the fast flash provides almost all of the light.

Video lights are both much weaker than a flash and also lack the motion stopping ability.

This is why xenon flashes are used for insect macro.

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