Thursday, 23 July 2009

Side Project: Ringflash

as it currently stands as of 25th of april i have worked out the wiring and need to build the body structure to mount the internals in
the flashes are triggered opticaly using a slave flash trigger i bought of trademe i could have soldered one myself but i got lazy and the unit is able to be smaller than i would have ended up buiding

this project started part way into the prosthesis brief and somewhat got delayed due to bct workload sickness and having to work out how to build it.
the point of a ringflash is that it throws a the light on the same plane as the lens and the light bounces back to the camera with little shadow detail giving a soft flat appearance and often rings in the pupil

The inital starting point was 20ish disposable cameras the were then dissasmbled and later modified to reduce the size
In the current arangement only 14 fit power coming from 4 AA batteries. a photo receptor diode (when it actually works) allows the flash to be triggered by the cameras flash and it also has a button to manualy discharge the flashes.Test# *8*
. this picture was taken on one of my first tests, in futher tests two wouldn't fire assumedly due to the trigger wiring after rewiring none do atm but should be easy to fix 3 which have a red led dont seem to charge fully or at all futher tests are nessary.

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