In researching flash for digital cameras for wedding use, including on PDML, I
find references to how the pre-flash used in almost all brands of digital TTL
makes people more likely to blink during the main flash of the final
exposure.
So far I'm using auto flash ( two flash double lighting, radio slaves, sensors
built into the flashes themselves, not TTL, no pre-flash ) with a brand C
DSLR. I will use this for Pentax as well, but I'm hoping for a flash which
my wife can slap onto the camera and shoot with all day long in P
("Professional!") mode, or A5.6 with auto ISO, or the like, so she can
concentrate on composition instead of F-stops.
The AF360 has an auto mode, but you have to tell it the ISO and f-stop, which
change a lot as the day goes on. Does anyone (Metz?) make a flash system
where the flash uses its own auto sensor, but it reads the f-stop and ISO
from the camera body instead of requiring us to set it?
Has anyone tried the Metz modules for the *istD on a DS? Metz claims that the
DS version is still coming.
Another approach: Regular TTL ( no pre-flash ) is claimed to be ok at ISO 400.
Does it at least not blow the highlights too bad? Maybe we could dial in a
-0.5 exposure compensation since we're normalizing everything anyhow.
By the way, it'd be nice if the flash controls could be locked so that they do
not accidentally change while using the flash flip bracket. I hear that some
Metz units do this.
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None of the local stores carries a flash for the DS, even though many of them
carry the DS and DL bodies.
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Brian
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Brian Dunn Photographic
http://www.bdphotographic.com
