My Space Hulk

I finally painted all my Space Hlk – Terminators

In honours to the fallen brother

More to come…….

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Nissin MF18

Not going to do an unboxing but just my view of the package:

a. The package is huge

b. The contents

In the box you will get

Ring Flash with the connector to the flash plus 6 different size metal lens ring adapter

I tested with 58mm, 67mm and 72mm on my lens. Eg. on my Canon EF50mm f1.4

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Nissin MF18–Dreadfleet

I bought Nissin MF18 Ring Flash and tested taking some picture on Dreadfleet.

Black Kraken

Heldenhammer

Flaming Scimitar

Shadewraith

Skabrus

More review on Dreadfleet and Nissin MF18 soon. Overall I am quite satisfied with the flash but still need to have more practice.

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Universal 3 Colors Pop-up Flash Diffuser Cover for Camera

From: Dealextreme

URL: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/universal-3-colors-pop-up-flash-diffuser-cover-for-camera-56811?r=75907141

Price: USD5.00

What is it?

The package comes in 4 items – the diffuser holder and 3 colors (white, orange and blue). To setup, connect one of the color diffuser to the holder and place it in your camera flash hotshoe. That’s it. Is that simple.

How is the quality

I used it on my Canon 60D and was very happy with the result (more on the photos outcome later). The holder and diffuser is very solid.

White	Orange	Blue

I will update with more photos when I have my tripod.

Final Thought

Is cheap and work as advertised. Highly recommend to get it.

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Shopping at DealExtreme

Recently I found a very good, reliable and great online shopping site called DealExtreme. The site offers lots of stuff and provide payment via Paypal and free shipping (at least to Singapore). You can also opt for the tracking delivery.

Lxpodisc Version 1.0

Construction

The Expodisc is used in place of a white card to set manual white balance. It looks like a fat filter with a fluorescent light fixture diffuser on top and white plastic on the bottom. It costs about USD120.

You don't photograph through it. You put it over your lens and put your camera in the same position as your subject. Point the camera back to your shooting position. Set the camera's white balance while it measures the same light that will fall on the subject.

Once set, put away the Expodisc and shoot from your original position. You don't shoot through the Expodisc, except to set the WB.

My Lxpodisc

With the concept above and plan to DIY my own ExpoDisc. Here are the materials needed for LxpoDisc:

a. White paper (80gram – 1 piece A4 size)

b. Ikea cupboard mat (SGD 5.00)

c. Cutter and cutting board

d. Compass, ruler, etc

e. Self-laminating sheet (SGD2.00 from Daisyo)

f. White glue

DIY steps

1. Draw the circle as per your filter size (in my case it was 72mm, so I create a 75mm circle)

2. Draw an outer circle of 85mm as the frame for the disc

3. Cut the cupboard mat to the size of the filter

4. Laminate the paper and cut the outer circle, glue the cupboard mat onto the inner circle

5. Bend the laminated paper to make a cap

The finished product should looks something like this:

How it works?

Canon camera setting only.

1. Put it in front of the lens

2. Take a picture and you should get a more constant greyish/whitish photo (look like need version 2.0)

And the reading as:

and compare with ExpoDisc:

Conclusion: mine is one step too dark, so need to add 2 stop to brighter the photo.

3. Go to Custom White Balance and choose the photo, click OK

4. Go to White Balance and select Custom ()

Photo comparison with Auto White Balance

AWB

Notice the AWB a little yellowish due to the lighting aand Lpxodisc a little darker due to my setting.

Conclusion: Will be working on version 2.0 and use lighter white paper.

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