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I was just looking at buying a Quantum flash setup and found the videos below from Quantum’s Qflash Academy. These are a great introduction to the Quantum system and they give a little taste of how a wedding and portrait photographer uses the system. These show lighting indoors and out with some problem lighting issues. One of these shows how the photographer handles a couple posed in front of a brightly lit window and corrects for that with the Quantum Qflash Trio System. This isn’t huge on details, but it’s still a nice set of photography videos for those who would like to see how professional lighting results can be attained. If you don’t have an interest in the Quantum system and already have some other flash setup, you will still see some useful video here.

Qflash Academy

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Here are the contents of the two groups of videos on the page:

Quantum Qflash TRIO/PILOT – This one is the more hands on video showing interaction with models.
Intro: Trio Intro With Rick Ferro
Lesson 1: QTTL Bounce Portrait Indoors
Lesson 2: Auto-Fill Bounce Portrait Indoors
Lesson 3: Outdoor Fill-Flash In QTTL Mode
Lesson 4: Sunny Outdoor Off-Camera Portrait With HSS
Lesson 5: BareBulb Outdoor Portrait
Lesson 6: Lighting the Room With Wireless QTTL
Lesson 7: Two Light Portrait Using Manual And Auto Modes
What Is The Pilot?

Quantum Qflash 5d-R – This one shows the features of the flash. I thought this was simply just a marketing piece at first, but I ended up liking this because it goes into more detailed information.
Lesson 1: Getting Started with Qflash
Lesson 2: Getting Started with Qflash: TTL and Auto Modes
Lesson 3: Getting Started with Qflash: Manual, Program, and Strobo Modes
Lesson 4: Getting Started with Qflash: CAMERA SETUP Q&A
Lesson 5: Basic TTL On-Camera Flash Indoors
Lesson 6: More TTL On-Camera Flash Indoors
Lesson 7: Basic TTL Off-Camera Flash Indoors
Lesson 8: MoreTTL Off-Camera Flash Indoors
Lesson 9: Fill Flash made easy with AUTO more
Lesson 10: Fill Flash in Manual Exposure Mode

I don’t have any Minolta SRTs, just XD-11 and X700, so I haven’t tried this for myself. But this link is to the article on Rokkorfiles so it’s probably good.

So anyway, if you find that your metering is inaccurate on your SRT, it might be that you’re using a modern 1.5V battery in a camera designed for 1.35V. This is a simple looking electronic conversion inside the camera body.

How to convert a Minolta SRT from Mercury Cells to modern Silver Cells

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Wow, Hasselblad has a new digital medium format camera. This is a pretty stunning camera. It has a 40, 50, or 60 megapixel back with fantastic Carl Zeiss glass, shutter speeds of 256 seconds to 1/800 second, bright viewfinders, waist level and eye level finders, and a CCD sensor measuring 33.1 × 44.2mm.

One of the most intriguing things about the new camera is the focus. It has True Focus and Absolute Position Lock which allows the camera to be focused then locked on that focus position so if the photographer tilts or swivels his position, the camera stays focused on its original subject.

It’s new Phocus technology provides for live video, remote capture, moire removal, GPS functionality and more.

It has software providing the new 3FR raw file format as well as Hasselblad’s Natural Color Solution (HNCS).

If you’re into view camera work as well, then the Hasselblad H4D has an adapter that allows it to be used as the back for a view camera. It also has a nice tilt/shift lens available.

First, here are the links to find Hasselblad H4D cameras for sale

Since I’m not the kind of guy to just regurgitate features, be sure to check out the data sheet at Hasselblad’s launch site

It’s always worthwhile to check out the Hasselblad H4D on Amazon

Here are 3 of Hasselblad’s promotional videos. We get a little glimpse of Steve McCurry, Kevin Then, and Michael Grecco using their H4D cameras.

Steve McCurry with his H4D-40

Kevin Then with his H4D-40

Michael Grecco with his H4D-40

Here is a launch interview showing some of the features a little better. If I find some other good ones over the next few days, I’ll post them here.

H4D40 Launch video from London

More Hasselblad cameras for sale on the web