--- Sylwester Pietrzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, Feb 9, 2003, at 12:53 Europe/Warsaw, > Heiko Hamann wrote: > > > The experience of success was, that my pictures > stick out regarding > > best > > sharpness, contrast and brilliance. The difference > was significant! As > > I > > had used AF and matrix metering, this success > cannot be attibuted to > > the > > photographer, but the camera system itself. The > other pictures were > > taken with Canon SLRs (afair) which were equipped > similar or even > > better. I wouldn't have thought that there might > be any difference > > between SLRs of different manufacturers at all. > But in this case I can > > clearly say: Pentax is superior! > > > > I must admit, that it happened, that I was taking > pictures head to head > with my friend, who uses EOS-300. Canon tends to > have awfull > cooperation with flash in program mode - sync time > is just set to > standard sync (in this case 1/90) and it doesn't > change with focal > length or available light. Pentax' dynamic flash > sync system allows you > to go down as slow as 1/30 at 28 mm (1/60 at 50 mm, > 1/90 at 90 mm and > so on), thus allowing to expose background as much > as it is possible, > not blurring the picture. In Canon you would have to > go to > not-so-convenient manual mode, or AV (it meters > available light only in > this mode) - where you would desperately need to use > tripod, to avoid > image shake at slow sync times in this mode. So the > difference was big, > and pictures from my MZ-S looked much, much nicer... > > Regards > Sylwek > > >
I have no idea of what film sped you were using. But Iimprovesilm inproves your chances over any other speeds. Nearly any camera/flash combination does well with ISO 800 because it allows a greater amount of ambient light to be exposed. Kodak Portra 800 excels at indoor flash pictures. I get it done with YAHOO! DSL! ===== Matt Greene I get it done with YAHOO! DSL!
