answers: 30

  1. Andrei
    19.12.2012

    Thank you for the article! As always entertaining. What can you say about nissin flashes.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.12.2012

      There are different flashes there, I did not hold many models in my hands.

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  2. Kostya
    19.12.2012

    Thank you for the article! Here's the task: Flash SB700 -TTL The room has a peach-colored wallpaper, and this shade applies to everything. The light was either incandescent or energy-saving individually. Which filter
    Yellow or green, for normal balance. From RAW-a edit failed. By the way, which one is which? Thanks for the answer.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.12.2012

      Yellow - for incandescent lamps, green - for fluorescent lamps. Ideally, a pink filter is needed, but I usually make the flash light smaller so that it doesn't light up the walls.

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  3. Vitaliy from Tambov
    19.12.2012

    As always - thank you very much, a man is working, productivity is amazing and most importantly without water, and I have not seen similar topics, God forbid, health, and continue in the same spirit!

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.12.2012

      Thanks. I am very pleased.

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  4. Denis
    19.12.2012

    Thank you, Arkady for the clarification on the filters! When shooting people (not portraits) in bars, etc. in rooms where both the ceiling and walls are similar in color to the TN-A1 filter, faces appear unpleasant (the color of a reflective surface - the flash is turned towards the wall or ceiling). In the RAW converter, the complexion is “not treated” in this case. I used the TN-A1 filter here, but there is no normal effect, the faces are still yellow. Perhaps the use of a filter is inappropriate here? Is it just a flash "on the forehead" to shoot?

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.12.2012

      In many cases, to get a normal complexion is, as you wrote, to use it on the forehead, or to 'blend' all light sources with some basic one. Normally, the flash pulse extinguishes all other sources. And how to install the flash is already a question of each separate scene.

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  5. Denis
    19.12.2012

    Yeah, it's cleared up! Maybe a little off topic, but I have an idea, what if I use such a soft box (for example, Lastolite 22 × 22 cm) for an external flash, put on directly on the flash installed on the camera? Well, in order to use such a construction in close reportage shooting - you don't depend on the color of the walls and the ceiling, and softened light on the faces, etc.

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.12.2012

      Many take it off.

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  6. Denis
    19.12.2012

    Thank you very much! I'll take it into service! Yours, Arkady, articles and reviews about external flashes (SB-shek, etc.) are very, very popular! These are obviously very creative photographer tools. Forces you to study and inspiration in writing articles! And your readers and connoisseurs of your work will definitely not decrease!

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      19.12.2012

      Thank you :)

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  7. Christina
    21.12.2012

    And on D 800, what kind of flash would you recommend?

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      21.12.2012

      SB-910 or SB-900

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  8. Dmitriy
    21.12.2012

    Arkady, hello! and you did not try to mount not original filters on flashes ?? I wonder how they will behave ^, will the correction by light temperature, etc. be transmitted to the camera ?? about the use of filters in studio conditions there are good articles on the site http://www.photoindustria.ru

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      21.12.2012

      When using non-native filters, correction will not be performed.

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  9. Alexey
    25.12.2012

    Arkady, Hello, I just bought a built-in flash diffuser of 3 colors, now I can’t figure out which one to use. Mostly I use light, that is, a white diffuser. But the rest of the blue and orange I don’t understand where to use. fits best. Maybe tell me where which

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      25.12.2012

      I also use mainly a white diffuser. Use color filters only in rare cases, some of which are described in this article. Yellow - for incandescent lamps, green - for fluorescent lamps.

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  10. Alexey
    30.12.2012

    Thank you very much for the answer. Good luck !!!!

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  11. Alla
    05.01.2013

    Thanks a lot for the article! For beginners - just a storehouse of information.

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  12. Andrei
    27.02.2013

    Tell Arkady if you put on a corrective filter for the flash and dress it in parallel, soft box, what is it to get and under what conditions is it better to use

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    • Vladislav
      08.05.2013

      Andrey, according to all the logic, it should work: after all, the light first passes through the filter, i.e. gets its color, and then gets into the software, although the software reflector can have its own shade. But in general - you can try, under certain conditions it will work.

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  13. Larissa
    18.03.2013

    Thank you so much for the article. Very useful information, in particular for newcomers like me. Thanks for the help in choosing a flash, having read it, I definitely decided on your recommendations.

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  14. Oleg
    03.06.2013

    Thanks for the great article, Arkady!
    Question: Does the SB-900 flash transmit filter information to the D800 if I remove it from the camera and set it on fire remotely from the built-in flash?

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    • anonym
      24.01.2014

      Yeah, you still take her around the corner))

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    • NE
      11.08.2017

      The flash is definitely nothing and cannot transmit to anyone via optical channels. She does not have any transmitter either. But in the context of advanced radio synchronization, the question is interesting, tk. in this case, the camera (as it were) must consider that the flash is installed (as it were) locally (the “radio bridge” for it must be transparent). But, in those TTL systems with which I happened to work or read about, only the receiver is installed on the flash. Even if it is a transceiver, it works either in the receiver mode or in the transmitter mode. So for now, if I am not mistaken, there are no radio synchronization systems with feedback.

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      • NE
        11.08.2017

        I’ll supplement the first sentence in a previous post a bit: of course, we are talking about the flash operation in slave mode.

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  15. User
    20.10.2013

    Arkady, please indicate the name of the native optional color filters for SB-910? I heard that there are such sets, but on the Internet there are a lot of them seem to be suitable for this flash, but I would like to use the native set for sure; I will be very grateful :)

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    • Arkady Shapoval
      20.10.2013

      I did not come across additional ones that are included in the kit are indicated in the article.

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  16. Lukas addon
    03.10.2016

    Thanks for the article, everything was very well explained.
    So I bought a 900 flash for 160 green hands, it works well and looks like new.
    But then I saw what convenient plastic filters come with 910 puff.
    Is it possible to use plastic filters from 910 to 900 puff?

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