24 June 2007

P365 Jun24: Flash mods



Velcro is love! I spent some of this afternoon doing some minor upgrades to my Canon 580EX flash. Canon flashes (till the newest 580EX II) do not have a sync cable port. As such I've been forced to attach my wireless flash with the hotshoe adapter which means I also have to use the very flimsy remote's cold foot attachment to mount the flash. That was a disaster waiting to happen.

So using some instructions I found online, I cracked open the flash and soldered in and mounted a jack that I can use. It was fiddly and a little stressful, but it worked first time! Thanks for getting the jack for me Grug!

I also put sticky velcro dots all over the flash in strategic locations. Some on the side to stick the wireless receivers, and some around the head of the flash to stick on the colour correction gels (seen in the top photo in their stored position). The orange is for tungsten light, the green for flourescent.

I also discovered the cat doesn't fit in the light tent :)

1 comment:

Unknown said...

SEE! Schrodinger's cat is alive!