ruwohe

Has anyone rigged up a flash diffuser or bounce flash for the Panasonic lumix zs100 or zs200? Thanks.

Rufus

JPL

No, but it should be easy. I have a TZ100 (same as ZS100) One thing you could also do is to use the camera flash to trigger off camera flash with optical trigger. That can be done with any flash. I have used that method with even a smartphone camera with good results. By using off camera flash you can easily soften the light if you want.

JPL

To make a cheap diffuser for your camera you could do like this. I took this homemade diffuser and put it one my TZ100 and tested it also. It works, but if it works as well as you need or want I can not tell.

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BebuLamar

Now I am interested. How do you trigger an external flash with a smartphone? I thought that the light on the smartphone is on before the exposure begins and off after the exposure ends.

JPL

I do not know how it works on every smartphone but this worked fine with my Lumia 1020. You would have to turn off the pre flash to reduce red eyes if that tech is used on your smarthphone. I was photographing some interior in low light about a year ago and decided to try this combination. The external flash did not fire every time, I had to keep it relatively close to the phone to trigger it. But apart from that this worked fine I do not remember what shutter speed I was using, maybe better to use high shutter speed if the flash is triggered early in the process.

It could be fun to repeat this, maybe I do that next weekend, just for the fun. And maybe make a video about it

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

I just bought a 100 and appreciate the suggestion!