???  I do not understand this?  If you set your camera to close to the 
ambient light and set the flash to ttl it will just fill in, if you 
select a wide aperature you get shallow DOF and pick up more ambient 
light, if you select a small aperature and "kill" the ambient you get 
what is lit by flash only.

Look at : http://homepage.mac.com/whmcclary/PhotoAlbum16.html
and look at the photo of the girl looking into the pumpkin. This photo 
was made on a Canon D60 at 1/2 second flash at -2 using a 420 ex and ETTL

As I think you can see the flash just filled in...I just set the 
aperature and shutter speed where I wanted to, 3.5 and 1/2, and let the 
flash do all the rest. In the old days you were stuck with what power 
levels the flash had programed now with TTL you can select any aperature 
and the flash will fill in automatically...any level of ambient is 
decided by you the photographer.  To get this flexiability in the old 
days you had to have a vari power module and a flash meter to get it just 
right...now it is a no brainer.

Once upon a time [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 

>Smaller apertures (A-TTL) can often be quite useful because the depth of 
>field reduces out of focus subjects. I wish a flash would allow a quick 
>choice of 1)smaller aperture, more flash influence 2)larger aperture and 
>more 
>ambient light effect. In the "old" days when the flash itself measured the 
>light, many flashes provided 2 or 3 aperture selections and then indicated 
>the working range with a table on the flash.  I miss this choice. 


Harrison McClary
http://www.mcclary.net

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