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[SpeedBoat]

Like/Love my pic if you think this is a great idea.

This is my eco-friendly contraption for photographing birds at night without using a flash.

The hotshoe mounted swivel-head allows me to angle the beam of light to intersect with the focal point.

http://instagram.com/p/Y6YFVgnxEi/
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[jet_kit]

Hi Speedboat,

Welcome aboard.

This gadget might have some uses, but I'm struggling to see where the 'eco-friendly' bit comes in. Also, the output from a torch is nothing like as high as a flash (even a buit-in one!), so exposures times will suffer, also torches provide all kinds of colour-balance issues.

What kind of birds fly around at night in NZ?

[SpeedBoat]

Hey Chris,

The eco-friendly part is that I dont use a flash in birds eyes at night. A flash will spook and temporarily blind a bird at night.

The torch is a high powered 1200 lumen Cree LED type.

My main target at night is a small indigenous owl called the Morepork that lives in forested areas.