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Andy Thatcher
Guest
I have unashamedly pinched this off the Barbel World site but did ask Bob Gill if he minded.
With the general topic of night fishing being around at the moment I thought it might be useful to remind people to be careful when using camera flashes to photograph fish.
It's my understanding that you should introduce the fishes eye to a more gradual change in light intensity by using a torch to cause the light sensing rods in the fish's eye to retreat before firing off the flash and thus reduce the impact of the flash to a lower level. I read this in Fred Crouch's Understanding Barbel book. Also not to fire off a flash closer than four feet.
Have any of you got other views or advice on this subject?
Cheers
Bob
What do you think ? Personally I am really unsure whether flash photography does harm fish. I am going to have a dig around though.
Cheers
Andy
With the general topic of night fishing being around at the moment I thought it might be useful to remind people to be careful when using camera flashes to photograph fish.
It's my understanding that you should introduce the fishes eye to a more gradual change in light intensity by using a torch to cause the light sensing rods in the fish's eye to retreat before firing off the flash and thus reduce the impact of the flash to a lower level. I read this in Fred Crouch's Understanding Barbel book. Also not to fire off a flash closer than four feet.
Have any of you got other views or advice on this subject?
Cheers
Bob
What do you think ? Personally I am really unsure whether flash photography does harm fish. I am going to have a dig around though.
Cheers
Andy