wosser
Newly Enlightened
I noticed that the built-in flash on the Nikon D40 has a hole in the middle when it's in the up position. Naturally it followed that a i1R EOS could fit in that gap and shine through to give a little bit of hands-free illumination while walking from place to place photographing nocturnal wildlife.
I designed a simple plastic part that slides into the hotshoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_shoe) on the camera, and grabs the flashlight by the rear section knurling...
Being a soft flooder, the photographs are unaffected by the flashlight's low mode, and on high mode it blends in well with the built-in flash (and the camera can compensate for the additional light by stopping down the exposure a wee bit. So you don't really notice it in high either.
It does help with simply walking around without having to have one hand used up with a flashlight.
The adaptor was 3D printed from phosphorescent ABS.
I designed a simple plastic part that slides into the hotshoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_shoe) on the camera, and grabs the flashlight by the rear section knurling...
Being a soft flooder, the photographs are unaffected by the flashlight's low mode, and on high mode it blends in well with the built-in flash (and the camera can compensate for the additional light by stopping down the exposure a wee bit. So you don't really notice it in high either.
It does help with simply walking around without having to have one hand used up with a flashlight.
The adaptor was 3D printed from phosphorescent ABS.
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