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Originally Posted by sftl99
This whole thing got me curious. A while back I had a point and shoot that had a terrible harsh flash (and no custom settings at all). I took some white Scotch tape (white = the cloudy but still clear kind) and put it over the flash and it seemed to improve the pictures quite a bit. After reading the technical jargon here it seems that I probably wasn't doing anything but bringing down the intensity and perhaps changing the white balance a bit. I guess my thought at the time was that the cloudy transparency might kill the harshness of the light, but now I really have no idea what was actually happening. What do you think?
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What I got is that since there is really no "extra room" for the light to disperse/redirect before "leaving the flash" the result is really just a reduction in light from the flash...and that makes sense. That said, I'm still using this technique on my PS since it doesn't have flash adjustments....