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08/16/2006 01:16:10 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by jemison:
I will be happy to bow out of this thread, since it appears that no one is really interested in discussing why the LightSphere seems to Rock, despite the thread title.
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I'm just not interested in teaching basic physics again. |
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08/16/2006 01:28:36 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by jemison:
OK you bounced with the dome on. In other words you didn't really increase the size of your apparent light source. Your light source was exactly the size of the LS. Any apparent lightsource as large as the LS (lumiquest softbox for one) would have done the same job.
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If you believe that the LS was the only way you could have gotten those results so be it. You are not alone. And Fong is getting rich off the hype.
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As any doctor will tell you, the placebo effect is real - and it works. |
You appear to have ignored my comments on the end of your thread. The LS is quite useful because it has more flexibility than a straight diffuser: it diffuses in combination with bounced flash. It also provides quite a large area of diffusion compared to many straight diffusers.
Your test in your quoted thread did not accurately test the LS, and overlooks some of its real life advantages when taking pictures of people. I would have thought that your mystery mod/portable softbox thing would do a better job with small objects close to a background (per your test), but the LS does a very good job with people in real life portrait type situations (which do not match your test criteria).
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