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Great meet! So... Next?

Postby MHD on Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:10 pm

Great catching up with you all! Steve (registered yet?), Micheal, Francine (did I get that right?!) And I'm really sorry Christian but I have (yet again) forgotten your wife's name!

I had a great time playing with the Sb800+Sb600 on commander mode! I will post pics tonight or tomorrow

Now should we do the discussed Commonwealth bridge dusk to night meet on a weeknight?

Thanks Christian for letting me have another play with the 70-200.... dangerous indeed! And it works so well with the 1.7TC...

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Re: Great meet! So... Next?

Postby birddog114 on Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:16 pm

MHD wrote:Great catching up with you all! Steve (registered yet?), Micheal, Francine (did I get that right?!) And I'm really sorry Christian but I have (yet again) forgotten your wife's name!

I had a great time playing with the Sb800+Sb600 on commander mode! I will post pics tonight or tomorrow

Now should we do the discussed Commonwealth bridge dusk to night meet on a weeknight?

Thanks Christian for letting me have another play with the 70-200.... dangerous indeed! And it works so well with the 1.7TC...

Cheers,
Scott


MHD,
You shouldn't try that "lethal weapons" too danger for your health and living condition :lol:
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Postby christiand on Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:23 pm

Thank you everyone who came along.

We had Mr and Mrs christiand, Mr and Mrs MHD, little MHD and Mr and Mrs ru32day plus their son attend. I allmost forgot Steve and his sons.
Steve is lurking for the time being.
This was a first get together with Canberran members who hadn't met before.
We were checking each other out and quickly engaged in friendly discussions about our camera gear, the temptations of Birddog114, and where we were coming from, our back grounds, photographic experience and why we were doing this.
We were sharing our experiences.
We had quite some fun putting our flashgun power into gear.
Everyone has an external flash that can be turned into a remote flash.
It was very interesting to have three flashguns illuminate an image.
We are starting to plan and implement shooting meets and tutorials.
I believe that we have great potential and also the right environment to form a cooperative (so to speak) that will beneficary for every member.
We are in the process of defining the framework for a night shooting mission in a fortnight.


Thanks again and let us know what the members would like to do in a fortnight.
I'd like to suggest that we concentrate on the area between National Library and National Gallery just before sunset, Saturday 12-02-05
19:00 at the National Library.

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Postby MHD on Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:30 pm

Yes... my poor wife being the target of so much attention and so many flashes
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I must say I am amazed at the ITTL wireless mode.... just stunnnig
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Postby MHD on Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:35 pm

Some meet images are up here
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plenty flashguns ...

Postby christiand on Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:42 pm

wow,

what great possibilities with a number of slave, remote flashes.
I really like this subject a lot.
Imagine you can plant a flashlite somewhere away from your D70 and illuminate a defined area with a controlled amount of flash.
How cool is that ?

Ohhh, this is superb !
I'm getting carried away because I like this a lot.
Sydney dudettes and dudes try the same. It will make you drooling !!!

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Postby MHD on Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:50 pm

Yeah 12/2 is looking good!

I would suggest just slightly earlier than 19:00 that way there is less chance of missing the golden light...

Now who is in charge of the weather :)
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Postby Wombat124 on Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:13 pm

Scott
I have registered and will keep in touch with forum and mettings.

Deciding whether to sell the kids and buy the VR? The VR is so far winning!!! :oops:

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Postby Matt. K on Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:19 pm

Well done to the Canberra mob! Looks like you had a fruitful meet and they can only get better. You guys have some beautiful buildings down there to photograph. So how many bottle of Moet got popped.
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selling kids won't do ...

Postby christiand on Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:22 pm

Steve,
You have already sold your sole !!!
You are just not aware of it !!! (YET !!!)

Good to see that you are starting to post on this forum.
I believe everyone here has "stuff" to contribute for everyone.
That is what makes our comminity such a nice place to be.

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Postby MHD on Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:26 am

Wombat124 wrote:Scott
I have registered and will keep in touch with forum and mettings.

Deciding whether to sell the kids and buy the VR? The VR is so far winning!!! :oops:

Steve

Probably has better taste in music too ;)
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Postby Link on Sun Jan 30, 2005 7:33 pm

Seems like it was a great meet!

MHD, I checked the meet pics on your website and I found the results of flash photography were really great, especially the #2 ("Francine lit by two SB-800).

Do you think it'd be possible to get the same result with only one SB 800 and the internal flash (the SB800 would of course not be mounted on the camera)?

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Postby MHD on Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:21 pm

Well not exactly the same result... But if you have a Sb800 whats to stop you experimenting!!!

The on-board-flash has no where near the same power as a sb-800
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grumble ...

Postby christiand on Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:23 pm

I really need to get the onboard flash fixed !

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Postby MHD on Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:27 pm

Indeed!

I guess you could also fire it using as second sb-800 ;)
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Postby Nnnnsic on Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:35 pm

Crikey... this thing is getting bigger than I expected if the people in Canberra are meeting... :)

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Postby christiand on Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:40 pm

Getting the D70 repaired (onboard flash)
But when ???!!! BTW, I really fell in love with the SB-800 going off remotely.
The things you can do with that !
Oh boy !, drool ...

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