What is E-TTL? I don't know. All I know is, that I'm not interested in using ANY preflash - at all. It's bad enough, that the people I photograph must put up with one flash light. I would never use a flash system that requires more than one flash burst.
First of all, it will give me a "shutter lag" - I can't capture the right moment. Secondly I believe that more than one flash is an unnecessary annoyance for the people being photographed. I almost exclusively use bounced flash (ceiling or other surfaces (except for studio photography and outdoor photography). A direct flash is not very polite. is it?. It leaves people "blind" for several minutes. This is often quite unacceptable. A direct flash provides a very unnatural looking light (horizontal in stead of vertical). Direct flash will result in over exposure of the foreground and under exposure of the background. Thus very unpleasant pictures. A direct flash will result in long horizontal shadows, which are not very pleasing IMO. No pre flash system for me, thank you very much! One flash light is actually one flash too many, as far as I'm concerned. I just want noiseless 12800 ASA . I guess my grand children will have this feature in - let's say - 20 years time ;-) Regards Jens Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 3. april 2006 19:00 Til: [email protected] Emne: RE: DL TTL flash madness BTW, I didn't know that my PENTAX *ist D was their very cheapest DSLR? I knew it was their first one, though. Regards Jens Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Jens Bladt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 3. april 2006 17:29 Til: [email protected] Emne: RE: DL TTL flash madness Who said only? Jens Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Aaron Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 3. april 2006 15:49 Til: [email protected] Emne: Re: DL TTL flash madness On Apr 3, 2006, at 2:22 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: > Crippled or not. > If the new 10 MP Pentax body doesn't support ordenary TTL flash, I > won't be > buying it. > I have too many flashes - I guess 7 or 8 TTL flahses, one of which is > a Metz > 60-CT2. Why on earth would you expect that the new top-end body would have only the feature set of the very cheapest DSLR that Pentax makes? -Aaron -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 03/31/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 03/31/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 03/31/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 03/31/2006 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 03/31/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.4/299 - Release Date: 03/31/2006
