1) Yes you can use a Pentax flash - and even the RTF - with yout ZX- Pn for daylight fill-in and it will render nicely balanced results. The limiting factor is the synch speed - 1/125 s is sometimes too slow for fill-in since good background exposure would ususally require a faster one. Of course you can stop the lens down but that will much reduce the effective range of the flash and if you use fill- in for portraits stopping down is not what you would normally like to achieve since it increases depth of field - not the best thing for portraiture. 2)As long as you use a dedicated flash the TTL-OTF metering in your camera will take care of everything - it measures light reflected off your subject in real time i.e. during the exposure. 3) The same is true of using a softbox - the TTL-OTF metering will take care of correct exposure, but softboxes used on regular shoe- mount flashes yield a very cumbersome combination and give you neither portability nor really powerful (on the contrary - the softbox takes away much light off your already not so powerful flash unit) or large source of light. Photoflex makes small softboxes to fit shoe-mount and bracket flashes; I don't think they are worth a try. [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał / wrote: > Hi! > I have a list of questions about flashes. > 1) daylight fill-flash: can any of Pentax flashes be used for that? See, > I'm not a flash guru, maybe this question should be asked a bit > differently: will the exposure be correct with any of Pentax flases used, > let's say, on ZX-5n? > 2) bounced flash: power of flash light diminishes (it should) if it is > reflected from walls for example. How the correct exposure can be got? > 3) has anyone used a softbox on the flash? What about the correct exposure > then? > > Also what about 3rd parties: Metz, Sunpak flashes? I have heard Sigma has > released a new flash comparable to AF500 (don't remember the model > number), is it ok to buy non-Pentax flash, or it's still better to eat > less and go for Pentax flash? :)) And is the AF500FTZ worth that money? > I've got possibility to make some photos (not developed yet) with it, it > feels good :) but are all the features usable in the real life? > > BR, > Atvars > > P.S. Maybe you know some good resources in the web about using the flash? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Załóż darmowe konto e-mail w WP. Kliknij < http://poczta.wp.pl > - 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 .
