Brian Johns Photography

My first experience with the PocketWizard Flex

I recently picked up a pair of the new PocketWizard units that do E-TTL with a Canon Speedlight. Essentially, you put one of these on your camera's hotshoe and one on the the flash and then the flash and the camera act as if they were directly attached.

You can move the flash wherever you want and the auto-metering "just works" and the exposure is supposedly all taken care of. You can even dial the flash compensation up and down on the camera and the flash does the right thing. That's the idea, at least.

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Canon 20-D for sale [sold]

I'm selling my Canon 20-D. It's an 8 megapixel camera from 4 years ago and I'm the original owner. I can't say it's been babied - I've taken it a lot of places and taken a lot of great photos with it. It has a very small ding in the side, near the Compact Flash door but other than that it's just scuffs here and there.

It just came back from a clean-and-check at Canon's service center so it's good to go. It includes two batteries, the charger, the box, everything that came in the box, etc. No lens, no Compact Flash card. Well, I guess I could throw in a 2 GB compact flash card...

I'm looking to get $300 for it, based on completed eBay auction prices. I could settle for a little less for a friend.

UPDATE: I sold it.

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Robert Cameron died on Tuesday

Robert Cameron died in San Francisco on Tuesday. He's responsible for the "Above..." series of books, including "Above Hawaii", Above San Francisco" and about 10 others. After selling over 2.5 million copies of the Above series, he's got to be the most prolific and well known aerial photographer in the world.

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