Digital Camera Flash Problems

One of the perpetual problems we’ve run into when we review cameras is the anemic flash units built into them. The reason for the weak flash units is obvious: they are designed to fit into the camera and aren’t meant to provide studio quality lighting. They are just meant to give you additional light for snapshots and nothing more.

We’ll be doing a LOT of traveling over the next few months. As a matter of fact, we’ll be on the road more than we’ll be in the office until late July. While we’re away we still need to work and we have several digital camera products to test on the road. While putting together a travel kit we noticed how bad the flash units are on all of the cameras we want to take with us.

We tested the few external flash units we have acquired over the years and none of them seem to be a solution to our potential problems. The main problem we’re worried about is a side trip to attend my niece’s wedding. How can I take good enough picture of the beautiful bride and her lucky husband?

We’ll work on the problem and let everyone know what we decide to do.