OLYMPUS OM10 35mm CAMERA +EXTRA LENS-STRAP -FLASH-BAG-FILTERS-CAPS-TRI-POD-BRUSH US $35.00

vtg subminiature spy camera Minolta MG 16 w/ flash 2 filters papers case w/ key US $19.99

NEW NIKON SJ-3 SJ3 OFFICIAL SPEEDLIGHT FLASH COLOR FILTER SET FOR SB-900 SB-910 US $29.00

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CANNON AE-1 50MM 75-205MM 28MM CASES FILTERS BAG MANUALS STRAPS FLASH 155A US $199.99

ACHIEVER 260AF Dedicated AF Flash w 3 Color Filters f/Pentax ZX/PZ Series A1 US $44.95

Dedicated ITTL Macro Ring Flash+4 Macro Filter FOR NIKON D4 D800 D3X D700 D300S US $95.00

Sticky Filters fill flash correction filters (large) US $49.95

TELE+WIDE+FLASH+FILTERS+MACRO For Tamron 17-50/28-75mm US $156.32

LOT 2 CAMERAS 5 LENSES 2 FLASH UNITS STRAPS LENSE FILTERS ALL CANON ALL 1 PRICE US $174.99

55mm Lens Front Cap Hood Flash Rear Body Filter UV US $3.06

Vintage Olympus OM1 Camera W Lens Case Flash Filters US $40.00

POLAROID 800 LAND CAMERA,WITH FLASH BRACKET,ORANGE FILTER AND CASE US $24.92

Strobist 10 ROSCO 2x5 Flash Gel Filter Lighting +VELCRO US $7.50

Olympus T32 flash 21mm Wide-angle & ND Filter Set for OM camera - Ex++! US $25.00

Olympus T32 flash Color Filter Set for OM camera -Nice Ex++! US $25.00

58MM UV LENS FILTER PROTECTOR FOR CANON NIKON + 3 COLOR POP UP FLASH DIFFUSER US $7.99

3 COLOR POP UP FLASH DIFFUSER + 58MM ULTRA-VIOLET FILTER + 2 MICROFIBERS US $9.99

Canon EOS Rebel T3i Camera,18-55mm II Lens, 8GB + 4GB, Flash, Filter kit 58mm US $817.72

2 Minolta Subminiature Cameras: 16MG in Box W/Flash, Filters, Manuals + 16 Mod P US $12.95

VIVITAR FK-2 FLASH FILTER KIT, 6 FILTERS US $5.00

Minolta Maxxum 600si Tamron28-200 aspherical LD,flash, filters, case and MORE! US $11.60

40pc Strobist Flash Lighting 2x5 Gel Filter ROSCO Color US $22.99

Telephoto lens flash close up kit UV CPL FLD filter cap adapter for Kodak P850 US $84.99

0.45x Wide filter lens kit slave flash tripod for Kodax DX7440 US $83.49

Olympus OM-10 35mm SLR Film Camera w/50mm lense + flash + filters US $25.00

MPS SFLRG-001 Sticky Filters, Self Adhesive Flash Gel US $49.95

Nikon FM3a with Pancake Lens Comes with new flash, 35-85mm zoom,bag,filters US $1,300.00

Nikon SJ-3 Color Filter Set - for SB900 Flash #4947 US $22.79

Pentax Auto 110, 3 lenses 18mm, 24mm w/ Skylight filter, 50mm, Flash US $31.00

Minolta X-700 35mm SLR Film Camera Body w/Assorted Lens~ Filters~Flash US $100.00

Lomography La Sardina-with flash, color filters, and film NEW US $119.00

Classic KONICA FP-1 Camera, Flash, Lens, Lens filters with bag LOT US $49.99

Vintage Collectors Item Camera Accessories Includes Filter and Mount and Flash US $12.00

VINTAGE WALZ 40.5 FLASH LENS CAMERA BLUE GLASS FILTER METAL RING SCREW ON CAP US $2.99

Vivitar FA-2 Flash Filter Adapter 0238348 - USED D5 US $4.99

VIVITAR VARIABLE ANGLE FLASH LENS FILTER KIT 283 US $16.99

METZ MECABLITZ 60-21 FILTER SET FOR METZ 60 CT SERIES FLASH US $10.00

METZ MECABLITZ 45-21 FILTER SET FOR METZ 45 SERIES FLASH US $10.00

Vintage Minolta X-700 35mm SLR Film Camera+FLASH, 3 Lens, UV Filters, CAMERA BAG US $75.00

Ricoh Super 44 Camera EXCELLENT CONDITION Flash Unit, Case, Filter, GREAT DEAL! US $250.00

METZ 45-44 FILL-IN REDUCTION FILTER FOR 45 CT-4, CT-5 & 60 CT-4 FLASH AUTHENTIC US $19.99

LOMO COLORSPLASH FLASH LCA LC-A+ LOMOGRAPHY SPROCKET ROCKET HOT SHOE GEL FILTERS US $39.00

Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ150 12.1 MP Digital Camera: Ext flash, filters, case, etc US $535.00

Honl Photo Sampler Color Effects Flash Gel Filter Kit US $42.95

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Pentax A3000 with 80-200mm&50mm lenses plus many filters & flash US $149.00

NICE USED ACHIEVER 421TZ BRAND CAMERA BOUNCE FLASH UNIT ~HOT SHOE~ W/FILTERS US $18.64

Minolta X700 35mm camera with 2 lens's 4 filters and flash US $125.00

VTG OLYMPUS OM10 35MM CAMERA LOT LENSES PAPERS FLASH ZUIKO S T SOLIGOR MC FILTER US $169.99

Canon IIIA Rangefinder BUNDLE Serenar 1.8 50 Self Timer, Flash, Filters, Holder US $600.00

2 x Yashica : FX-3 + FX-D with 50mm 1:2 lens, teleconverter, case, filter, flash US $39.99

Pentax Super 110 Camera Lenses Filters Flash Case and Many Extras US $10.49

SUNPAK ELECTRONIC FLASH FILTER KIT. FOR AUTO 411. US $10.00

52mm 2 Lens 3 Filter KIT POP UP Flash diffuser 18-55mm US $67.00

Universal SOFT Flash Diffuser Filter for Flashgun Canon 580EX II Olympus Nissin US $1.05

VINTAGE RICOH XR-M CAMERA, LENSES, FLASHES, FILTERS USED IN CASE US $59.99

MINOLTA XG1 35mm Camera w/MD ROKKOR-X 45mm Lens f1:2, flash, filters, bag, etc US $49.95

0.45x Wide angle slave flash tripod UV CPL FLD filter lens kit for Olympus C770 US $83.49

Rogue Universal Gel Filter Kit with Holder for Flash w/ Case - Int'l Shipping US $29.95

Vivitar 285 Flash Filter 2-Kit Set FK-1 - Nice Ex++! US $25.00

58MM UV ULTRA-VIOLET FILTER LENS PROTECTOR + POP UP FLASH DIFFUSER + MICROFIBERS US $8.95

58MM 58 MM MCUV MC UV MULTI COATED ULTRA-VIOLET FILTER + FLASH DIFFUSER US $6.75

Lot Minolta Maxxum 7000 plus Kalimar 75 - 200 Flash case manuals filters US $13.36

52-49mm 52mm 49mm Step Down Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash etc. US $5.48

62-55mm 62mm 55mm Step Down Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash etc. US $5.68

62-58mm 62mm 58mm Step Down Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash etc. US $5.68

67-58mm 67mm 58mm Step Down Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash etc. US $5.68

77-58mm 77mm 58mm Step Down Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash etc. US $5.98

46mm to 52 46-52mm 46-52 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

49mm to 52 49-52mm 49-52 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

49mm to 58 49-58mm 49-58 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

52mm to 55 52-55mm 52-55 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

52mm to 58 52-58mm 52-58 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

52mm to 77 52-77mm 52-77 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

55mm to 58 55-58mm 55-58 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

58mm to 62 58-62mm 58-62 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

58mm to 77 58-77mm 58-77 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

62mm to 67 62-67mm 62-67 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

67mm to 77 67-77mm 67-77 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

72mm to 77 72-77mm 72-77 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

74mm to 77 74-77mm 74-77 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $6.98

86mm to 95 86-95mm 86-95 Step Up Lens Filter Ring Adapter fits filter hood flash US $9.98

Polaroid Wink Light Model 250 W/ Bulbs, Filter & Flash US $12.00

Minolta X-700 Manual with Accessory Option: Filter Caps Strap Bag Flash etc... US $4.75

Flash Filter

My Overview on the Flash Animation

Let's face it, the Web is a disappointment. It's that tiny little screen, the narrow bandwidth and the uncertainty that vast numbers of your audience might not be able to see what you want them to. Everything to do with Web design is about downsizing. And if it wasn't bad enough having to make all your static graphics 72dpi, any attempt at animation involves considerable cramming effort. What this means, at least until large screens and fast Internet connections become the norm, is you can't yet do much with video. You can stream QuickTime, but without a leased line connection it's terrible. Thankfully, you still have a range of choices when it comes to graphics animation. So, let's take a look at the main techniques, and their drawbacks, for getting your site animated today.

In the beginning

Back in 1994, the backroom boys in commercial Web development came up with an extremely basic form of animation by sending consecutive GIF images live to the browser. Advertisers had been using this method to change ad banners every 30 seconds or so without waiting for the user to refresh the page. By sending a sequence of frames on a constant basis, an elementary 3D animation effect was possible. The drawback, of course, was that graphic data was constantly being downloaded over the line after the page itself had loaded. On a 14.4K modem, this meant the browser was always flickering and the hard disk churning, and frames were usually interspersed with blanks as each subsequent frame loaded. Soon after, the animated GIF was born, effectively packing the GIF frame sequence into one file which downloaded once. The animated GIF has been a staple of ad banners and simple attention-grabbing effects ever since. Even sites which promote and showcase Flash and Shockwave interfaces still use animated GIFs because designers know that it's the one animation technology supported in every Web browser that lets you see graphics at all. The limitations of animated GIFs are well-known, but let's summarise them anyway. GIFs are bitmap images, so come at a fixed size regardless of browser window size. They can reach quite exciting sizes if they include more than 10 frames or so, because compression is based on the number of different colours in each image. They also tend to appear in a jerky fashion during the download, leaving the user staring at a seemingly inexplicable sequence running at one frame every five seconds the first time round. More recently, designers have been able to produce basic path motion for static images using DHTML. Instead of running an animation in one fixed place, DHTML techniques let you take a single image and move it around over the top of your page as an independent, floating object. The nice thing about this approach is that the animation, for what it is, starts almost immediately and the movement is perfectly smooth, not being frame-based. The graphic can also have a transparent background just like any GIF. The big drawback is that it doesn't do anything else terribly interesting. As a result it can come across as just plain annoying or tacky. And it's not really animation.

All in a Flash

While the World Wide Web Consortium squandered most of the 1990s considering some proper animation technologies, Macromedia just went for it. The result was Flash, a system of playing back self-contained movies containing vector-based graphics and text within a Web page or independently running in a Web browser. The advantages of the Flash approach are considerable, and getting more compelling as time goes on. In the first instance, the vector nature of Flash movies allows you to include quite complex graphics and sequences in the confidence that they'll compress down to almost unfeasibly small file sizes. In practically every test, from simple rollover type and button effects to complete sequences, you'll find that Flash files are smaller than animated GIFs and load up faster than Java actions. Vectors also mean that the movies can resize themselves automatically to fit the browser screen, anti-aliasing on the fly. Better still, Flash movies can incorporate events and react to user input, making it terrific for developing custom Web page interfaces which HTML couldn't hope to imitate. Not least, Flash can include embedded audio. And perhaps best of all from an experienced designer's point of view, the movies can be set to start running as soon as the download commences without waiting for it to complete. There are two principal drawbacks to the Flash format. First, it requires your audience to have a plug-in Flash player installed. However, to Macromedia's credit, the Flash plug-in is a relatively small and speedy download at just a couple of hundred kilobytes. You should also be aware that Microsoft 3 intends dumping most of the plug-ins it currently ships with Internet Explorer in future - but Flash is the very notable exception. The second drawback might not concern you, but it's that Flash isn't actually a standard in the same way as HTML, GIF, JPG, PNG or something like Java. Flash is a 100 per cent proprietary format owned by Macromedia and licensed out to other graphics software developers on a commercial basis. In practice, of course, it doesn't matter that Flash isn't an officially recognised standard because well over 90 per cent of Internet users already have the plug-in installed: we're talking about hundreds of millions of people, ready to go with your animation content. Fun and sexy though Flash is, it's not a complete multimedia environment. Originally, Flash arose from a project at Macromedia to make Shockwave animations, already developed for Web playback, even more compact and accessible by people with slow modems. Shockwave is still very much alive and well, and in many cases leaves Flash way behind in terms of visual quality, interactivity and multifunctionality. There's even a lively market for cartoons and games using Shockwave and its offline player ShockMachine. Unlike Flash, however, the Shockwave plug-in is a long download and requires a somewhat fiddly installation process which includes exiting your Web browser at one point. The big limitation of both Flash and Shockwave from a graphic artist's point of view is that the really clever interactive features depend on scripting. Or to choose another word, programming. If you're happy about scripting, indeed if you have some JavaScript experience, you'll find Flash is reasonably approachable; if not, you'll be limited to more conventional animation tasks.

Hot new alternatives

Inevitably, everyone is always on the hunt for a Web animation system that doesn't expect the audience to locate and install third-party plug-ins. These exist, but they do so with solutions that are even more proprietary than Flash, and usually protected by their creators with ridiculously extreme caution. One example of an alternative to Flash that doesn't require a plug-in is CyberSpot. To all intents and purposes, a CyberSpot sequence looks a bit like a basic Flash movie with audio but it loads up in an instant without any preliminaries. The problem with it is that CyberSpot is marketed as a bespoke service by the company that developed it. You commission them to create a 30-second movie on your behalf, rather than create your own using standard software packages. As you can imagine, this is of limited use except as standalone ads. The hot technology everyone is talking about at the moment that could rival Flash at some point in the future is Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG. It began life as a concept proposed by Adobe to the World Wide Web Consortium and, from the start, Adobe proposed SVG as an open standard in the hope that this will encourage its adoption. The idea behind SVG is to provide the Web with a vector graphics standard in the same way that GIF, JPG and PNG are bitmap standards. But more than this, it supports animation and user interactivity. And further, it is navigable with pan and zoom functions. This means you could use SVG in a number of different ways to suit the desired result, whether that be a detailed diagram you can zoom into without losing definition (a streetmap is a classic example), Web page interface elements or an interactive animated movie. SVG supports visual filter effects applied in real time rather than just being frames, and can include audio. One of the reasons so many people are getting interested in SVG is that it is based on XML, which is generally regarded as the next step in Web functionality. XML support in a dynamic vector graphic or animation can link it intelligently to all kinds of data, which in turn could radically alter the way Web content is delivered. As ever, there are drawbacks. One is that SVG, though accepted as an official standard, still requires a plug-in for your browser to display. Although Adobe hopes that one day, SVG support will be built into all browsers, for the immediate future it involves a download of well over 2Mb. Another limitation is that precious few graphics packages can yet export to SVG other than Adobe Illustrator 9 and Photoshop 6. And this leads to the biggest drawback of all: not many people are using SVG yet and most Web users have never heard of it. All this certainly lends credence to Macromedia's claim that Flash is the real Web animation standard, officially recognised or not. With a widening range of design products now capable of exporting to Flash, including Illustrator and FreeHand, not to mention LiveMotion, Flash is where the action's at for the next couple of years at least, if not indefinitely.

About the Author

Hi, I am Hina Khan, I am a student of 3D Max and CG (Computer Graphics), for more information about my work please visit at : 3dleaks.com

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