Cheap off-camera lighting kit
Oh will you look at that. How very Web 2.0!
Our mate over at Strobist (the newest entry in my “regularly read” photo blogs, btw) has created the Starving Student Off Camera Lighting Kit – or the SSO-CLK. It’s all common sense, but there’s so much of it, and it could save you a great number of dollars, pounds, yen, euros, or whatever you pay for your camera gear with.
The SSO-CLK (for lack of a more poetic term) is designed to give you the most bang for your buck – with a nod toward extreme portability. It will work well with any camera that can be controlled manually and has a PC synch jack. Most SLR’s, digital or film, fit this bill. The flash is a vintage Nikon model, but it will work off-camera with anything that has a PC jack.
How can we resist? Check it out at the Strobist: Round Up: The “Starving Student” Off-Camera Light Kit.
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Nice tip. Reminds me of the ifakedit.com post about photography on a budget. The author really gets some nice results using pretty cheap methods. It’s worth a read. Here’s a link:
small budget photography (ifakedit.com)
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