Exactly!
I will just trigger the flashes using the built in flash since my safe hot shoe-pc connecter didn't arrive yet :-( My digital camera does not have this problem since it has a built in pc connecter but Elan II does not so I have to do it this way. I will measure the strobe power using a flash meter and then set the camera to 1/60 and whatever aperture the flash meter suggests. I will dial ISO as high as it will go, or put a business card directing flash upwards. So I will not be using my ttl capabilities at all... cheers, evrim > -----Original Message----- From: Grega Fenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 9:54 AM To: eos@ > a1.nl Subject: Re: EOS Elan II pop up flash - is it single shot ? >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) * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
