I must be living in some kind of treasure trove. Last time it was the viewfinder, and now this.

The other night I was talking to Min Wye post Cipher Launch (pictures here) about the LX3 when we came to the conclusion that the hot shoe on the LX3 meant that I would be able to make use of just about any flash unit with it. Don’t know why I didn’t realise this before, but I’ve had on lying around at home for the longest time. Well, after that discussion I had quite a lot more of the night to go through before getting home, so by the time I was home I’d totally forgotten about it again.

So I was just lounging around in the living room watching a documentary about ancient Rome on SBS when suddenly it came back to me. I jumped up and ran in to the room, rummaged through boxes and managed to find the flash unit, battery cover and pilfered 4 rechargable batteries from my emergency torch (hope the storms don’t come again).

As expected, it was easy to put together and I got it working without having to touch any of the camera settings, but it’s been a really really long time since I’ve used an external flash, so I think I’ll need to relearn a lot of stuff. Right now the pictures as you can see are still a little overexposed.

The LX3 is great fun indeed!