At 6:54 PM -0400 1/13/01, Terry Danks wrote:
>I just can't see how a brief burst of light, followed a few
>milliseconds later by
>the exposing flash can be the slightest effective in reducing red
>eye. What am I
>missing here?
On my Elan at least the redeye reduction system works by shining a
very bright white light, like a flashlight. You're supposed to tell
your subject to stare at this lamp. Meanwhile the camera displays a
little countdown for a second or a second and a half. Once this
countdown has concluded you're supposed to take the photo. So it's
not a brief burst of light, nor is it supposed to be a millisecond
later. And so instead of a person with satanic glowing red eyes you
get someone with a glazed and stunned look from staring into a lamp.
Of course all this rigmarole could be avoided by mounting the flash
higher up off the lens axis. But that doesn't reduce the problem of
all your nighttime or low-light shots of people looking like they're
on LSD or some other pupil-dilating drug, though. You just can't win.
- Neil K.
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