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Excellent question I use both for exactly the weight issue. When I am shooting around home and not handholding I prefer the MagMod, because I feel it throws more light. But when I am travelling I mostly use the Better Beamer because it is so light and compact.

@@SteveGettle Very helpful, thank you!!

Possible, certainly the less timid birds like chickadees and such, but the jumpy things like cardinals etc. definitely would not. In addition and more importantly they would not be as relaxed and photogenic, if they are terrified that a human is sitting 15 feet away!

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Dang that is a shame thanks for the info!

Thank you very much!

Glad it was helpful! Thanks!

Absolutely! zooms have come a LONG way! super helpful when you are shooting different sized subjects from a fixed location - like a blind. Yes that Olympus zoom covers a lot of ground a great wildlife lens for sure. Steve

That is valid and legitimate sometimes for sure. As a general rule however when I have a flashed image and one with no flash in the same shoot I generally prefer the flashed one. Mostly for the extra color the flash brings out. Thanks for sharing your thought provoking thoughts though Steve

Many many thanks

Hi unfortunately that is a tripod head that most of us start with. It is very cumbersome and virtually impossible to use on a moving subject. I would recommend you invest in a good ballhead. Much more user friendly. But hold on to that pan tilt head it is useful for landscape and macro photography.

Thanks so much!

Our pleasure thanks for checking it out!

Glad you like them!

Thanks for the feedback, it is virtually impossible to process images for all of the different devices the video will be played. I see the videos on my tv screen and want to take them down lol! Steve

I appreciate the question and your concern, the well being of our subjects must always be a TOP priority! This is a controversial subject and there seems to be a lot of misinformation out there regarding this question. Most of it seems to be propagated by the birding community. First of all let me say there is no way to know for sure. But I do have a ton of real world experience using fill flash for bird photography. I have made many hundreds of thousands of images of birds using fill flash over my career and have only had one bird ever react in any way to my flash and that was a violet saberwing in Cost Rica that flinched in response to the pre-flash, in that case I simply turned off the flash and continued shooting. Additionally, I once sold some work to a veterinarian ophthalmologist for use in his office, and had the chance to ask him his thoughts on the subject. He qualified his answer with "of course there is no way to know for sure". But he speculated that the flash of light was so fast that most animals (birds included) would not even register the burst of light. Think of what would happen should an owl be flying through a dense forest at night and he was blinded by a flash of lightning? Thanks again for your concern! Steve

Glad you enjoyed it!

Here you go Bill! promediagear.com/collections/gimbal-heads/products/gkjr-katana-pro-gimbal-tripod-head#judgeme_product_reviews Absolutely the best I have ever used and I have used them all. Steve

Good for you. We have gotten so much joy from our meadow project - as well as countless images!

Thank you we really enjoy it!

Yes TTL is the only way to go - The trick is to dial in a minus 1.7 flash compensation, this will just put out just a kiss of light to fill in the shadows and bring out the colors. Doing it in manual is just a shot in the dark, TTL is much better no guessing. As for stopping action I use high-speed flash for that which is another very complicated subject. You might be able to find a program I have done called "Frozen Moments" That explains that subject in great detail.

Thanks I am glad you found it helpful. Here are the brackets we recommend for different configurations. These are all wimberley brackets Telephoto flash brackets: www.tripodhead.com/products/flash-bracket-telephoto-brackets.cfm If you have a ProMediaGear Katana Jr. or a newer Wimberley Gimbal head you need the F-9 If you have a 1st generation Wimberley gimbal head you need the F-4 If you are using the Wimberley Sidekick you will need the F-6 If you are using a ballhead or want to handhold you will want the F-1

Thanks I am glad you found it useful. We will be working hard to produce more videos when we can!

Appreciate your thoughts and feedback George! Yes I use and Love Pocket Wizards a lot especially for multiple flash setups. Steve

Glad you found it useful. Yes you may not have room in every shooting situation. Some blind manufactures actually have designed the openings for using fill flash! Tragopan being the best example. As for the Steely eye question I have not tried that but I would think moving it off4-5 inches should work. But make sure you are checking images on occasion to be sure you are not having a problem Good Luck! Steve

@@SteveGettle Thx for your reply. I'll try as per your recommendations

Thanks we have a lot of fun!

Hi Anita I am so happy to hear you found it helpful! If you are shooting in TTL mode - flash to subject distance should not matter. In TTL your flash sends out an almost imperceptible test pre-burst to measure how much light you need and then adjusts automatically to give you the right amount of light for your subject. It works very well - almost like magic!!!

@@SteveGettle Thanks Steve! Appreciate your reply. Have to dig out my flash bracket and get started using flash. Have to say putting the MagGrip on my flash was much harder than I anticipated. My husband got it but don't think I will be taking it off anytime soon.

Hi Gary I shoot in either Aperture priority or Manual, however the mode you shoot should not affect the fill flash in any way. Same with what aperture you are on, I shoot many different apertures depending on the situation and what I am trying to accomplish ie controlling background or getting enough depth of field to cover my subject etc.

Hey David! Thanks so much. It was great sharing our birds with you.

Hi Abdul thank you for the kind words. I do not know of any competition that bans any kind of flash from entries? Steve

Great idea!!

Have not tried that but I am pretty sure it would just pass right through you might lose some light to the glass but not much. See you in in Canada. Have a great Christmas Peg!

Thanks for sharing your experience. Getting that flash off the hot shoe will virtually eliminate red-eye or steely eye. My understanding is that the red eye reduction that is available in some cameras simply fires a "pre-burst" of light to make the pupil smaller and try to reduce the chance of red eye that way. Steve

You're gonna LOVE it!

Thanks for the interest! I just stapled the camouflaged materials around the opening and then cut a hole for the lens to poke through. It seems to work well and can be easily replaced after a year or two when it gets too worn.

@@SteveGettle thanks for the info, I will try it

Hey John thanks for the kind words! The trip was in early June and we do 5 days with the bears, It is an awesome experience. Our 2023 trip is fully sold out but we will be announcing 2024 dates soon Steve

Thanks so much!

Thanks for the encouragement! We appreciate it.

We really Love Macro photography - more to come for sure!

Hey Remy, My "bread and butter" lens for this trip is the Nikon 180-400mm. I also use the 70-200mm for the backed off "Bearscape" images. But this is a special location where we can comfortably get closer to the bears then most other locations.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Ha Ha - No artificial perches here! You will see beautiful perches all around you once you start looking.

Thanks for watching!

Never had any kind of problem with anything like that???

@Steve Gettle great that you're free of all that! My brother-in-law told me that he doesn't believe we'd have problems. He grew up playing with siblings in their family storm shelter, and never had those problems. I think it's worth a shot!

Sure thing! Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks Terry, we both enjoy what we do!

Thanks so much!

Thank you for the kind words Aaron. I enjoyed my visit to Belize very much.

Thanks and yes... we do get untold rewards every day from all of the hard work!