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Old 11-04-2016, 03:06 PM  
Rads
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Default Re: Taking photos of hams with flash?

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Originally Posted by Serena_jayne98 View Post
I just use my phone or my little Sony Cybershot camera and I'm too scared to use flash at all in case I shock them, but it is so hard to get good photos of the little wrigglers, 90% of them come out blurry
Yes it is quite a challenge, even shooting at 1/250th of a second with 2nd curtain sync on the flash...
The flash will be ok to modify the output on your cybershot just pop a bit of greaseproof paper over it which will soften the light from it.
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