Gerard, Your answer created some confusion to me. Mayby you can clerify it a bit for me (see below)
Drikus Gerard Maas wrote (edited) > > Yes, both. In the case of an external unit with FEC capabilities (like the > 550EX), the compensation set on the unit overrides the camera (and whatever > fill-in compensation the body had calculated) > Are you sure? I always understood that FEC set on camera or flash would be added to the automatic fill-in compensation. In the manual for my EOS5 and 430EZ I can find nothing about it. > for fill flash when the meter senses a certain amount of background > > brightness such that 'regular' flash would not be needed. > > I think it's EV12 (125f/5.6) or EV13 (125f/8) ISO 100 > Someone posted the table below sometime earlier Here's the table of flash exposure compensation applied with the EOS1n when used in 'bright' conditions, defeatable via Custom Function 14. Brightness Compensation stops 9 or less 0 10 -0.4 11 -0.8 12 -1.2 13 -1.6 14 -2.0 15 -2.07 16 -2.14 17 -2.21 18 -2.28 19 -2.36 20 -2.43 21 -2.50 22 -2.57 Reproduced from September 2000 issue of EOS Magazine. > > My understanding > > is (correct me if I am wrong) that this 'feature' can not be disabled on the > > Elan 7. > > Following what I said before, there's a way: Supose you're using ISO100 film. You > set your ISO to 50 (or 200) and then dial the corresponding compensation in the > flash and the camera. If you use ISO 50, then you dial -1 EC in the camera and -1 > EC in the flash. Now the flash EC will override the fill-in control in the > camera. > Is both needed or is FEC set on the flash alone sufficient? * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
