On Sep 27, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Cotty wrote: > On 27/09/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> All way too complicated. Gimme a manual flash and a flash meter. ;-) > > I absolutely LOATHE flash. But it also can produce some wonderful > results. So I let the flash do all the work. Top of the range Canon > 580EX that is a computer with a light tube bolted on. Unbelievably > good > and I never think twice. Indoors, camera to full manual: aperture to > about f8, shutter speed to 1/250th (max normal sync) and bouncing the > flash off ceilings gives beautiful results. Or ext night, direct > with an > omnibounce thingy, or daylight fill using full auto. Can't fault it. > Hate using it, but can't fault it.
I had the 420EX when I had my Canon gear. It did exactly the same, although was, of course, smaller, less powerful. I also loathe flash for general purpose photography ... I use it for table top work ... or when at a party doing snapshots like last evening. It's just a tool. My table top setup is so consistent that I just set up the flash, the subject, set the aperture and shoot. I rarely even have to check the histogram. ;-) Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
