DIY Grid/Snoot - Template PDF Files
Photographer Jon MacKinnon, like me, he's an aficionado for the DIY stuff.
He contact me a couple of weeks ago saying the he recently started a Discussion group at Flickr concerning my Lighting Mod posts (do you still remember them?) DIY: 580EX Color Gels Printing Diagram and DIY: Black Straws Snoot Grid (Part 1) and the discussions are all about diagrams for different flash models and you can even add your own model if it isn't already there.
Also visit Jon's Flickr stream for some great DIY stuff.
Here are the direct links to some of the strobes Templates available.
CANON
580EX
NIKON
SB-25 and SB-26
SB-28
SB-600
SB-800
SIGMA
EF-500
VIVITAR
283
285
I think this would be a lot helpful if you are into building one of these babies.
Thanks Jon for this wonderful idea and keep up the good work.
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9 comments:
Do you still have the pdf for the 580 gel template lying arround somewhere? Because I can't find it on your website anymore...
much appreciated!
Mark
Sorry I Had to remove it from the my web page because of too much bandwidth that was generating.
Mail me out and I will gladly send it to you.
Rui
Uh... I just spent some time cutting out some card and gluing things together. When I was finished, I realized -- THE TEMPLATE IS SIZED FOR A4 PAPER.
So if you are in the U.S. or Canada, you probably aren't using A4 paper. When you print it out, Acrobat will probably resize it for 8.5x11, meaning it will be distorted (and it will. not. fit.).
Sigh... a whole evening down the drain.
Don't blame me on this matter.
Jon was kind enough to create this templates I only put a link here because I think this would be a great idea.
I will dig around and send Jon a mail to see if he can solve this.
Thanks for the tip.
Rui
Oh, I am not blaming you (I left the previous comment). If I had put a little thought into it, I would have realized that the world is bigger than the continent where I live.
It is easily solved - I should have mentioned this earlier. In the Acrobat print dialog, simply set the page scaling to "none" (instead of "fit to page" or anything else). In some cases the resulting print will not fit on one page (e.g., Vivitar 285). But the rest is easy enough to figure out.
And by the way - thanks for posting the links.
anonymous thanks for pointing that out so others could benefit with this information.
Enjoy the templates.
Hi just wondering....is the template works on 580EX mkII?
Hi Vin,
I do not own a 580ExII. So I cannot confirm that it will fit on it since I've seen that the 580ExII is a little bigger than the 580EX but it's just a matter of you to try it out and report back :)
Thanks
First off, I love the site!
Secondly, I have found that the following measurements work great for a 580EX II:
1, 4.6, 7.1, 4.6, 7.1 x _cm
I hope these are right, my original Inch measurements are:
.25, 1.8, 2.8, 1.8, 2.8 x _in
-Mike
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