Jens Bladt wrote:
What is E-TTL?
I don't know.
E-TTL is Canon's primary flash system, introduced in 1998 and recently
updated to E-TTL 2 with the introduction of the 20d some 18 months ago
or so. It's a pre-flash based system, but not intrusive (unlike the
horrible A-TTL system Canon used through the 1990's)
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.
The preflash is indistinguishable from the main flash with these
systems. We're talking a few extra milliseconds for the preflash. We're
not talking red-eye reduction and the consequent 1/2 second+ delays
inherent to that.
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!
Pre-flash systems meter more accurately with bounce flash than TTL does,
especially with a balanced fill system.
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
Then you want balanced fill flash done with a preflash based system. It
tends to be less intrusive and harsh than plain TTL as it automatically
will handle balancing ambient and flash exposures. I'm not sure if P-TTL
offers this, and if it does, it likely requires a hotshow flash, not the
pop-up.
-Adam
Jens Bladt
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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
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http://www.jensbladt.dk
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Emne: RE: DL TTL flash madness
Who said only?
Jens
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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
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