Supplemental information: the VR uses quite a bit of battery. Probably as much as the flash at near full power. Also, the VR “sleep” behavior I demonstrate is true of all VR I’ve tested. I went to the store and tried 5 different VR lenses and they all went to sleep if you held the [...]
… cause reflections and glare that a remote flash wont. On my Sony A700 this is a problem because you can’t turn off the on-camera flash. So a trick I used was to tape a piece of exposed film over the flash. This way the signal light could still trigger the remote flash while not [...]
… one of the stranger sounding and feeling camera oriented videos I have seen, but at the same time quite interesting and helpful. I certainly have been wanting one of these flashes for awhile, and this only further whetted my appetite more. Time to spin a web and capture one as it passes by… right [...]