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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: EOS Decided against an Elan 7e - a/f assist light (plus
> flashassist)
>
>
> > "GerryPalo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...
> > I really think they should separate the a/f assist function
> > completely from the flash function and put it on a separate
> > button control. This should be true of both built in assist
> > lights and the lights on a flash unit itself. They should
> > then go one step further and offer, perhaps as part of a
> > battery pack or some other attachment, an add-on a/f assist
> > light, or one that somehow attatches to the camera but
> > doesn't interfere with the flash systems. ...
>
> Hi Gerry,
>
> I think most people on the Elan 7E Mailing List set CF7 to
> disable the flickering AF-assist (CF7=1 or CF7=2 if using
> a 420EX or 550EX).
That pretty much cinches my decision not to buy a 7E. The point is that I
want a/f assist, because it is necessary in low light, especially with a
slower lens. Disabling it will make things even worse, if less annoying to
people in line of sight of the flickering light. I had hoped that the new
model would be even more sensitive in low light than the old, but apparently
it is less sensitive -- e.v. 1-18 vs. 0-18 with the IIe. I would really
like to have a completely separate a/f assist feature that I can turn on and
off with an external switch, completely independent of the flash. To be
sure, it should also be able, manually, to engage the flash too, but only
when I say so. As it is what you can do is too limited, and to do it
requires fumbling with custom functions and the like, in low light, while
you are trying to take a picture. No thanks.
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Gerry Palo
Denver, Colorado
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