Using Your ePhoto1280
with Auxillary Lenses

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Wideangle Lenses (cont)

These are using an Ambico (model V-3200) 0.5X Wideangle lens with the
ePhoto1280 in the full wideangle position. This lens does yield considerable
edge vignetting but it is still useable after doing a little digital cropping.

What I learned after taking these pictures is that the lens had a stepup ring
on it marked "Series VII-52mm" and I had used another 46 to 52mm stepup
ring which further exaggerated the vignetting. Turns out that Series VII
is actually 46mm so - I didn't need any stepup rings at all, let alone two
of them. Without any rings the lens is closer so there is less vignetting.

Special Effects Filters

This is a shot of a pair of floodlights using a 6-point "star"
Cokin special effects filter. It will take any bright light source
and give it the appearance of a star complete with the streaks.

This picture was taken using a Cokin Creative graduated blue filter
over the top half of the lens to enhance the blue color of the sky.
Cokin graduated filters come in a variety of colors and can be shifted
up and down in the holder to enhance only those areas that need it.

The Cokin Creative Filter System is a marvelous set of relatively
inexpensive and incredibly powerful filters to convert your ordinary
pictures into dazzling works of art - check them out!

Circular Polarizing Filter

Polarizing filters are a great way to get rid of or limit the
amount of reflection you get from shiny surfaces. Be sure to
remember that you MUST use a circular polarizing filter and not
the linear type because these do not work with autofocus systems.

And they don't call them circular for nothing, be sure to rotate
the filter while watching the LCD to get the desired effect. By
rotating the filter you change the angle of light that the filter
will absorb. These filters work great for glass or water reflections.

Closeup Filters

Even though the ePhoto1280's lens is capable of going as close as
four inches or so -- you can get even closer with an inexpensive
set of Tiffen or Hoya closeup filters. These glass closeup filter kits
usually come in a set of three with a +1, +2 and +4 diopter and
can be used individually or "stacked" together to get even closer.
It's best to buy either the 55mm or 58mm set and a stepup ring.

To see examples of what they can do go to my

Digicam Closeups page

The DSF-1 Digicam Flash

Want more flash power? Hey, who doesn't seeing as how most
of our digicams come with pathetically underpowered flashes
that are barely able to work well at 8 to 10 feet. The answer
is now here - the DSF-1 Digital Camera Slave Flash will greatly
extend and enhance your camera's low-light capabilities as is
demonstrated here by this "before and after" comparison photo.

Click on the thumbnail on the left to see the BIG picture.

The DSF-1 flash can be attached to most digicams using a simple
and cheap "L" flash bracket available at most camera stores.

Look Ma no wires! The DSF-1 has a flash slave that actually
counts the number of flashes that it "sees" before it triggers
the flash to go off. Most digital cameras use a double flash,
the first flash sets the focus & exposure and the second flash
is used to illuminate the actual picture area. The DSF-1 can be
triggered by 1 or 2 flashes by changing a switch on the back.

The DSF-1 offers bounce-fill to even out the lighting and eliminate
shadows by tilting the head up or down to whatever angle you desire.
It also puts out enough light to take pictures in the total darkness
up to 15 to 20 feet when used with the ePhoto1280.

Here's a plant out on my back patio taken at about 10pm at night.
The picture taken without the DSF-1 was almost completely black.
This was a zoom shoot with a distance to the subject of 14 feet,
that white wall in the background was almost twenty-two feet away!

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