Does anyone perhaps know a comprehensive resource on the web about flash
photography (with Pentax, if it could?). I still feel very unfamiliar
with all concepts of flash metering.
Maybe you can check if my understanding so far is correct about the
different existing metering types:
- fully manual; you focus camera, read aperture from table on flash and
set aperture on camera; flash always fires at same strength (that's how
I use my Spotmatic)
- automatic aperture; you focus camera and camera sets automatic
aperture, knowing the guide number of the flash; flas always fires at
same strength (that's how I use my Canonet GIII QL 17)
- auto flash; you focus camera and set aperture to fixed value; flash
fires and reads reflected light and stops when it thinks it's enough
(variations: flash meters light before exposure or during exposure)
- TTL auto flash; you focus camera and set aperture at will; flash
starts firing, camera reads light and stops the flash when it thinks
it's enough
Only the latter method is suitable for bouncing flash?
Is this list complete or did I invent some methods? Is there some fixed
terminology?
Groeten,
Vic
Cotty wrote:
On 6/8/05, William Robb, discombobulated, unleashed:
This thread has got me thinking about how I use flash.
