On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Len Paris wrote: > I would hazard a guess that he was referring to daylight fill flash > where older cameras had too slow a flash sync shutter speed to be as > practical as some of the newer cameras. Perhaps I misunderstood?
No, perhaps *I* don't understand (I am of the AF, TTL generation, you see :-). What I am saying is that one needs to set the aperture according to the flash instructions. Unless you are very good at judging distances before composing, this means that you *first* compose, *then* check what the lens thinks the distance is, *then* set the aperture on the lens as per the flash instructions (btw, the AF080C has such complicated instructions that they span 2 pages on the manual and of course don't feature on the flash). Which is exactly what Boj suggests in his site. This also has the problem that someone else tells you what the DOF should be. Perhaps William is right, I should be taking more pictures. However, on the usual occasion that I don't get the verticals right or the image is blurred because I can't hold the camera right or whatever, I get angry with myself. On the odd occasion that I got back a burnt-out, all white face of the daughter (and all the background near-black) I thought, "no, these flashes are junk". And, ken what[1], in that occasion the verticals were perfect and the daughter was doing the right thing, so all that pestering and waiting would not have gone amiss. That's all I am saying. Kostas [1] "Know something" in Scottish :-)
