I worked at a daily paper for over a year and one of
my most common assignments was sports. Since I do not
(yet) own any fast lenses I almost always pushed my
film to 1600 or 3200 ISO. The only thing problem was
that while shooting I could tell that my flash was
over-shooting the scene. And you could of course tell
when the negs were developed that the players were
~way~ overexposed. At one football game my light meter
indicated an ambient exposure of 1/125 @ f4 (nice
stadium), so I shot at 250 f4 with flash. The flash
again overexposed. It was never a problem that could
not be corrected in photoshop, so I never paid a lot
of attention to it thinking it was the meter being
fooled by the night sky (even though I shot in CW
mode). Anyway just a few minutes ago I was looking
through the z1p's manual for another subject when the
following line caught my eye. Found on page 125 under
the "Flash" specifications it says "ISO range=
25-800." Does this mean that the in-camera flash meter
is not compatible with an ISO over 800? If so, that
would explain why my sports pix with pushed film were
always overexposed. I tried to test this out with my
handheld flash meter but the batteries died and I
don't have any spare (for the meter). Ack! I tried
that test a long time ago, but cannot remember the
results but it seems as though it worked back then.
Any comments? Thanks again.
Nicholas Wright
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35
a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
-
This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe,
go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to
visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
