Saturday, January 24, 2026

Camp Snap Pro - Xenon-flash

CampSnapPhoto did a very good thing, adding a real flash to the Camp Snap Pro. This features allows for "slaves" being triggered enabling elaborate lighting setups. Very very cool in particular since the CS-Pro flash has 2 different settings.
However, there is a (solvable) problem. The flash of the CS-Pro does not produce a homogeneous field of light, something I tested flashing a white ceiling. The photo displayed stripes across the image. A strip of Scotch Magic Tape over the flash unit improved the distribution to some extent; not perfect, good enough however.



My thanks to the CampSnapPhoto-folks for adding the Xenon-flash. Setting up a scene with slaves will erase the problem with the in-homogeneous light-field. Mind you, I already sold photographs taken with the Camp Snap 105. I am pretty sure that I can create professional scenes with the Camp Snap Pro and a decent setup of inexpensive slave speed-lights and cheap light modulators / reflectors.