----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miers" Subject: RE: Earth Calling Pentax
> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but a 16mm with a 1.5 conversion angle works > out to 24mm right? Thus on the *istD if the onboard flash covers an angle > equivalent to 24mm in film, it covers the range of a 16mm lens. Or am I > totally off base here? As I recall some of the members were getting strange > reading on the autozoom settings for their flashes, which were a narrower > setting then the lens was set at. I assumed the *istD was automatically > converting for the 1.5 multiplier. Does this make any sense? I don't know if you are right or wrong, I don't believe in conversion angles. I just put lenses of shorter focal lengths onto the camera and shot pictures of my carpet using the pygmy flash. With a 24mm lens, the lighting was even with no hot spots, witha 20mm lens, the center was much hotter than the edges. William Robb
