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<\/a>\nThe unit is based on a light aluminium incubator lamp housing and a few other bits and pieces. It uses a flashgun dedicated to my camera so I can get full exposure control.<\/p>\n
Rather than put all the details here, you can read about the construction at:
\nwww.pmstudios.co.uk\/ringflash
\nor see just the photos, including more test images, at:
\nwww.pmstudios.co.uk\/ringflashpics<\/p>\n
How good is it? Here are some test shots of artificial flowers.<\/p>\n
Taken with a 100mm lens at a distance of about 40cm: Taken with a 100mm lens at closest focusing:<\/p>\n Well, that has saved a bit of money….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At one of the recent workshops that I run for our local camera club, one member was trying out a DIY ring-flash that he built based on an idea he found on the internet. It appeared to work very well so I thought I would have a go but vary the design a little based … Continue reading “DIY Ring-light \/ ring-flash”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a><\/p>\n![\"100mm](\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/E13_0037-100mm-closest-focusw1-600x399.jpg\" "\\"E13_0037")
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