>From: Gerard Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Grega Fenko wrote:
>
> > If slaves are controlled optically, they will "shut down" as built-in 
>flash.
> > In this manner total flash power will be underexposed by the amount of
> > negative compensation.
> > Or am I missing something?
> >
> > AFAIK all film based EOS bodies have TTL built-in flash (those that have
> > one).
>
>Greka,
>
>As I undestood it,  Evrim is talking about triggering studio flashes with 
>the
>built-in flash on the EOS 50E.  (Some/most/several??) studio strobes have 
>slaves
>to trigger each other in a multi-flash setup, so you (usually) connect your 
>sync
>lead to one of them and the rest follows. You can use this slave 
>functionality
>to trigger them with a built-in flash as well. And as I explained before, 
>they
>are responsive to the IR output, so covering the body flash with a IR 
>filter
>will help further in eliminating the influence of the built-in flash output 
>on
>the final image.  Negative exposure compensation should do fine, but 
>sometimes
>(depending on the power of your strobes, f/stop , film rating and lighting
>setup)  it can be intrusive.
>
>You're right if the 'slaves' we're talking about were TTL slaves (like the
>ikelite)
>
>Greetings,
>
>Gerard.
>

Agreed.

BTW it's Grega not Greka

Good light
Grega
http://fenko.8m.com

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