What's a brolly? Malcolm Stewart wrote:
> I have two 550EXs, and an EOS3. I've found the wireless ratio control > works well both indoors (unposed family snapshots) and outdoors (mushrooms), > but I have been working well within the range limits stated by Canon. I did > some controlled tests about a year ago using a dummy as a portrait model, > and the (not very inspiring) results are available at > www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk . The system is really is simple to use; but I > do feel that, in some places, Canon could have made the instruction manual > somewhat clearer. > One feature which I have noticed is a variation in exposure level with > fairly similar subjects, these being my grandchildren wearing typical baby > garments with a satin appearance. I'm guessing that the variations might be > due to specular reflection from shiny clothes fibres "fooling" the E-TTL > system. Certainly when I scan the slides, I find a fair number of levels > with value = 255. > Yesterday I purchased an ST-E2 with the intention of doing fairly typical 2 > brolly portraits, but without all those trailing wires I used to have. The > ST-E2 seems rather easier to program than the 550EX. Hopefully the use of > brollies will get over the exposure variation mentioned above. > > M Stewart Milton Keynes, UK > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photos of Animals, Flowers, and More http://www.naturefocus.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
