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Xenon flash for iPhone

Xenon flash for iPhone

- As photographers, it seems that we have a limitless number of choices of what sort of camera we might use, but you've probably heard the old mantra that the best camera is the one you actually have with you and for many of us, that is sometimes our smartphone. We might not have our digital SLR or our mirrorless camera with us and so we just need to make do with a smartphone and actually, it's not even really making do very much these days because the cameras in these smartphones have gotten to be very sophisticated. The quality is quite good. But one area that tends to be a little bit lacking is flash. The flash on a smartphone camera is very, very small. It tends not to be very powerful, it doesn't fire a great distance and we're not able, in most cases, to exercise very much control over it. We can still employ flash. I have a wonderful old camera here and I'll go ahead and capture an image just using flash, the built-in flash, and I get a reasonable amount of illumination, I get…

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