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In lugnet.publish.photography, Todd Lehman writes:
> [1] Yup, high-power strobe flashes are even brighter than the sun. Try
> making a 1/1000 second exposure at f/22 or f/32 from sunlight!
> And you can direct and bounce and diffuse flashes more easily than
> sunlight.
Ah, but that only works if you've got hand-held flashes. Not all
cameras have that capability (I know mine doesn't). So, to be more
accurate, never use the built-in flash to photograph LEGO bricks. If you
can set up a flash source that's not located right on top of the camera POV,
it might work just fine, but if you're using the flash that's included in
the actual camera, you're going to get nasty glare, and there's not a lot of
options for improving the quality of the light without obstructing the
camera view.
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| If you don't have alternative flash solutions there's a trick, put a small piece a transparent (Scotch) tape over the flash lens, it acts as a little diffuser and cost ~$0.000001. Maybe even a smear of some vaseline on the flash lens would work (I'm (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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| (...) Unless you know what you're doing. In which case: nothing beats flashes -- not even the sun.[1] --Todd [1] Yup, high-power strobe flashes are even brighter than the sun. Try making a 1/1000 second exposure at f/22 or f/32 from sunlight! And (...) (21 years ago, 21-May-03, to lugnet.publish.photography)
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