To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:33 AM
Subject: Re: EOS 350D v 10D
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 22:30 +0100, Malcolm Stewart wrote:[..]
That's not what Canon (UK) told me whan I complained about the pathetic
performance I suffered from the first E-TTL ! They patronised me saying
that I didn't understand how it worked. (But I could see 2 stops of
under-exposure.)
What mode do you use it with ? From my experience, best results indoors are achieved with M. Outdoors for fill flash I use Av or P and both work as expected. Av or P indoors have almost always been underexposed and I don't use them there anymore.
Also I was having flash exposure problems until I understood that focus-recompose does not work as expected when using flash because exposure is calculated at E-TTL preflash time, not at focus time.
Most of the 20D shooters I know use M for flash, and TTL, rather than ETTL II. ETTL II is pretty pathetic, IMHO. It produces consistently underexposed results, so at least you know what to expect. But those poor results are only with Canon flashes. When I use Quantum flashes, I have excellent results, and other report similar experiences with other, non-Canon, flashes. Any flash metering system that needs to be fooled into working correctly, doesn't work correctly in all modes and works better with other mfr's flashes than it does with its own company's cannot be termed a success.
Focus/recompose does work if you use FEL, BTW.
Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com
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