Ah, well. See there, I did mis-understand. Perhaps, if you had put that in your original e-mail... Anyway, sorry to have caused you upset.
Len * There's no place like 127.0.0.1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Kostas Kavoussanakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Optio S4 - first impressions > > > 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 :-) >
