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Comment on Wedding Reception Lighting by Nick Nishizaka

Nick Nishizaka — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:00:30 +0000

The Vagabond Mini Lithium is absolutely great. I haven’t run out of juice at weddings yet. However it’s not something I break out for everything. If I need to overpower the sun, then I use it along with the Einstein 640. Otherwise, if I can’t find an outlet nearby for one of my strobes, I’ll use it for that and it’ll last all night long since the strobes are like at 1/16th power. I highly recommend it!

Comment on Wedding Reception Lighting by Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:03:12 +0000

Hi Nick,

I was considering Vagabond Mini Lithium Battery Pack as well, but not sure about how long will it last for the wedding? did it work out for you? how many shots of the AB800 can you take out of a full charge?

Thanks,

Comment on 5D Mark III Shadow Recovery by Adam

Adam — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:11:00 +0000

Holy Crap! Nice post Nick, and nicely done. Keep up the good work man.

Comment on 5D Mark III Review by Nick Nishizaka

Nick Nishizaka — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:21:28 +0000

Depends on the scene. Something like what I posted, where everything is dark-ish, the noise will just be more apparent. It also depends on your final product. Smaller prints or web-sized images will be fine. ISO25600 is reserved for absolutely emergencies for me and the only time I’ve used it is just to play around with it to see how noisy it is.

Comment on Wedding Reception Lighting by Nick Nishizaka

Nick Nishizaka — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:19:56 +0000

Scott,

I usually fire off both strobes and the the on-camera speedlite all at once. Sometimes I might either disable the strobes or the speedlite depending on whether I want a certain look, but I usually have them all firing. I try to put the strobes at a distance to minimize light fall off and on the opposite end of the reception hall to get more even coverage.

Comment on 5D Mark III Review by Dmitry

Dmitry — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:20:47 +0000

Hi, you think that’s impossible to clean 25k on mark ii?

Comment on Wedding Reception Lighting by Scott Petersen

Scott Petersen — Tue, 01 May 2012 06:19:01 +0000

I use basically the same set up, but I have two Einsteins. My only question is, do you have both strobes plus your on camera flash going off at once, or do you have the two strobes go off independently depending on the direction you are shooting? The latter is what I do, just wondering if you’ve found having both strobes go off at once beneficial if that’s what you do.

Comment on 5D Mark III Review by Nick Nishizaka

Nick Nishizaka — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:57:31 +0000

RD, thanks. I’m afraid I can’t really comment on the “light leak” issue because I simply don’t shoot in conditions where it would even be a factor. I really have no complaints about the 5D Mark III other than the AF point illumination issue I touched on in my review. But I am slowly getting used to that as well.

Comment on 5D Mark III Review by RD

RD — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:48:58 +0000

Hi Nick, Any thoughts on the reported “light leak” issue related to the 5DMIII? BTW-Nice pics and thanks for the review!

Comment on 5D Mark III Review by Nick Nishizaka

Nick Nishizaka — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:00:39 +0000

John, yes, I did use a speedlite on that one. I will point out however since I was in AI Servo mode, there was no AF assist beam to help me out in focusing so it was the 5D Mark III that got the job done. In fact, it’s pretty much been bang on in AI servo.