> Jim, I'll let the Elan 7 owners rejoin your rather sever comments about
the
> camera if they care to, but do want to mention that E-TTL is, in my
opinion,
> clearly a much better method of producing accurate and balanced flash.
> Besides the other advantages of E-TTL, the pre-flash burst is nearly
> imperceptible to a subject as it happens just milliseconds prior to the
main
> flash. The sensor reads this, sets the exposure and fires the main flash
> much more quickly than a subject would have time to blink reflexively.
>
> Gary Russell
> Olympia, Washington - USA
Ok, I think E-TTL is nice, but in what way would say a photo taken under
flash conditions like normal room light be better with an on camera flash?
What I get now with TTL is nicely balanced ambient and subject. Using
aperture priority or manual I can adjust the ratio between them as I please.
Does E-TTL mean that the computers in the camera and flash can more often
guess the ratio I'd like more often sucessfully than I could do myself?
In other words, is E-TTL a really good thing for say a weddgin
photographer would can't take the time to figure out compensations, or
perhaps just for a photographer that doesn't know what he's doing? I'm not
wanting to sound cynical here, it's just that under a lot of different
situations using flash with the TTL I'm using, over the past 6 months I've
had this setup, I've gotten excellent results that I doubt could have been
improved on. In most cases I haven't even applied any special treatments,
just pointed and shot the scene. TTL balances background very well for me
that's all.
One of the things I don't (think) I'd like about E-TTL would be having
to relearn how to compensate and balance the flash. I believe the same
methods would apply, but with what results? I really like some automatic
features sometimes, but overall I really like having known control over my
shots as well. Some might say, well if E-TTL and Nikon's 3D flash scheme
(whatever it's called) weren't needed, then why were they developed? I might
go on about marketing, profits, and gizmos to sell cameras but I won't :-)
The ability to just point and shoot knowing you're going to get
excellent results that you expect is a great thing sometimes, just maybe not
for all of us. Maybe for wedding photography, maybe in other situations, I
don't know. All I know is the results I've been getting are, like I said,
quite satisfactory based on my knowledge and experience with results.
Folks, are things like E-TTL really helping photographers? Or are they
making it easy for unskilled persons to take professional looking photos
easier?
Jim Davis
Website: http://www.kjsl.com/~jbdavis/
"Every footstep must be true." - Bruce Cockburn
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