Hi everyone. I ran a small test with my Elan 7 using various exposure and flash compensation settings and thought I'd share the results. I began taking portraits outside with my 85mm f/1.8 in program mode at exposures around f/2.8 and 1/125. +1/2 exposure compensation with no flash was perfect, just as anticipated. A portrait of the subject, considering its tone, should be properly exposed at +1/2. I was somewhat surprised when I started using flash that the camera didn't automatically underexpose the ambient metering. This being known, results were about as anticipated. Using no exposure compensation, -1.5 flash compensation gave an appropriate amount of fill. Using -1/2 exposure compensation, -1 flash compensation was required. Lastly, I took some indoor flash pictures with the camera in manual at f/5.6 and 1/125. Somewhat surprisingly, the pictures with no compensation came out best. Since the pictures outside in ambient light worked best with +1/2 exposure compensation, that tells me that the 420EX overexposes by 1/2 stop. After figuring all that out, the outdoor fill pictures made perfect sense. No exposure compensation is really -1/2 and -1.5 flash compensation is -1.5. -1/2 exposure compensation is really -1 and -1 flash compensation is really -1. Do the math and you have proper exposures. Everything is very predictabe, which I'm very happy about. Sometime when the sun comes out, I'll try fill flash in high ambient light to see if I can figure out the automatic flash compensation. I'm guessing doing nothing will work best.
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