I believe you talking to me, Kostas. Moving the slider in the back of the AF280T does not have any effect, when working in TTL Mode. The camera sensor will determine flash duration according to the camera settings.
Cheating the flash means using it in NON TTL MODE, that is using the built-in automtics in the flash unit. (The AF500FTZ is - AFAIR not equiped with such automatics). In TTL mode only two things work AFAIK: A flash compensation utility in the flash unit or in the camera body. In any other case the flash duration will be adjusted to accomodate "the total exposure" - meaning NO consideration of the ambient light involved and NO compensation possible. Of course there's one more option, which is hardly useful: Adjusting the shutterspeed (more time) to allow the ambient light to "play it's part" so to speak, in the final picture. This technique is known as Slow Flash. As I said - hardly useble for daylight shooting. Now a question for you and Bruce: It seems that the AF360FGZ has a flash compensation utility (fill flash option) which will allow the flash to give LESS light than it normally would. Is this true??? If yes - will it work without usin the P-TTL mode? I still would prefer a body with a +/- option for the flash only - like the PZ-1p had. Regards Jens Bladt Arkitekt MAA http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Kostas Kavoussanakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 13. september 2005 18:09 Til: [email protected] Emne: RE: *ist D or DS & AF500FTZ for Weddings? On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Jens Bladt wrote: > The AF280T, however, will allow you to set the flash unit to a faster speed > than the camera, which makes it possible to cheat the flash unit into giving > slightly too litle light = this is a fill flash option. What in TTL mode? Using the slider at the back? I doubt it. Can you elaborate? Kostas
