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Canon Ec-D
"É um belo horizonte, é uma febre terção" - Aguas De marco: Elis Regina & Tom Jobim
I sometimes wonder why Canon just doesn't include these in their cameras. Having a grid displayed in your viewfinder just helps with making sure your vertical and horizontal lines are plumb. In addition to that it can help split your frame equally if you want to make sure your subject is as center has possible.
Installation in straight forward and only takes a few minutes using the supplied tool. As you can tell I bought one for my EOS 40D and have purchased one for use in my EOS 1D Mark III.
As for lighting I kept in pretty mundane using a 580EX II in a shoot through umbrella tight camera right as I wanted the light source as soft as possible. I do wonder though given the size of the box did it really matter how tight I put the umbrella? I was too lazy to test it out.
Background light was provided by a 430EX placed underneath the table pointed towards the rear just to bring up the background a bit.
Giving a bit of separation of the box from the background I placed a 550EX on a CRT computer monitor out of frame camera left pointed at the rear of the box.
Strobist info:
1 580EX II 1/128 power head zoomed 105mm shoot through umbrella camera right
1 550EX 1/128 power 1/4 CTO head zoomed 105mm placed out of frame camera left pointed at rear of box
1 430EX 1/16 power 2x Blue Gel head zoomed 24mm with wide angle diffuser pulled out (effective 14mm) underneath table pointed at background
Camera settings:
1/15 f/2.5 ISO50
Lens used:
Fixed Canon 7-21mm f/2.0-2.5 as found on a Canon PowerShot G2
Setup shot can be found here
Canon Ec-D
"É um belo horizonte, é uma febre terção" - Aguas De marco: Elis Regina & Tom Jobim
I sometimes wonder why Canon just doesn't include these in their cameras. Having a grid displayed in your viewfinder just helps with making sure your vertical and horizontal lines are plumb. In addition to that it can help split your frame equally if you want to make sure your subject is as center has possible.
Installation in straight forward and only takes a few minutes using the supplied tool. As you can tell I bought one for my EOS 40D and have purchased one for use in my EOS 1D Mark III.
As for lighting I kept in pretty mundane using a 580EX II in a shoot through umbrella tight camera right as I wanted the light source as soft as possible. I do wonder though given the size of the box did it really matter how tight I put the umbrella? I was too lazy to test it out.
Background light was provided by a 430EX placed underneath the table pointed towards the rear just to bring up the background a bit.
Giving a bit of separation of the box from the background I placed a 550EX on a CRT computer monitor out of frame camera left pointed at the rear of the box.
Strobist info:
1 580EX II 1/128 power head zoomed 105mm shoot through umbrella camera right
1 550EX 1/128 power 1/4 CTO head zoomed 105mm placed out of frame camera left pointed at rear of box
1 430EX 1/16 power 2x Blue Gel head zoomed 24mm with wide angle diffuser pulled out (effective 14mm) underneath table pointed at background
Camera settings:
1/15 f/2.5 ISO50
Lens used:
Fixed Canon 7-21mm f/2.0-2.5 as found on a Canon PowerShot G2
Setup shot can be found here