I mentioned in my last post that I had made the decision to purchase the new iPhone 18, with its advanced camera settings and editing options and its variable aperture lens. I took delivery of that new toy a couple weeks ago and have been playing with it since. I decided to take it out as my sole photographic tool for a quick photo shoot at a local garden. I wanted to know if it could fully replace a standard camera. Yes, we are at the end of our growing season, but there are still beautiful colours out there, only getting more beautiful as Fall sets in.
Here’s a look at what I packed to take to the shoot and how things turned out. (Note: some corrections are now included, as I discover new things).
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My colleague then said: “I’m bringing this flash back. It doesn’t fire consistently.” He demonstrated the problem, with the unit set first on TTL mode and then on manual mode while attached to the hotshoe on his mirrorless camera. He was right. Without changing camera settings, sometimes the speedlite would fire and sometimes it wouldn’t. He returned the unit. But it got me to thinking about how the speedlite and camera work together and how to make sure they always work when needed. 
And then what do we do? Â We turn everything off and shoot completely manually, because “that’s what pros do”. Â Think about that for a minute. Â Does that make sense to you? Â Give your head a shake.
