Duck Pond

A roadtrip to the scenic Fountain City Duck Pond in Knoxville, Tennessee, famous crime scene of a double homicide.

Tried out my new $59 idiotproof Sunpac Digiflash 3000 TTL speedlight from Wallymart on my Canon Rebel T2i (so new it's not listed Sunpac nor Amazon nor BH Photo). GN92, full auto, no manual, no slave, no need for an external light meter. Flash power is controlled by camera exposure measured through the lens. Infrared autofocus assist beam. It can be triggered remotely with a separate slave unit (no cable port) so does not include a stand, but can swivel horizontal to bounce or trigger another slave flash. Cannot control multiple flashes by TTL. Does have 2nd curtain synchronization, to allow proper motion blur. Ebay price is $49, but I needed it TODAY.







This was the same day after returning a busted $30 Vivitar SF4000 manual slave flash to Amazon (worked for 45 days and included hotshoe bracket and tripod, f-stop slide rule broken on arrival, 1 year warrantee with shipping prepaid by seller). I don't think I burned it out with continuous shots, since I didn't take that many.



And now for the ducks, with zoom fill flash on all shots, 250mm zoom lens, partly sunny day in shade, camera on full auto, careful not to burn out the new flash with continuous shots. Distance to subject is recorded on image via ETTL flash. Max flash speed allowed was 1/200.