On 9/15/06, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use the pop-up flash quite often, mostly for the day-light fill-flash > It's so handy. Unless I know in advance what I am going to shoot, I avoid > lugging around a flash and a tripod (that's why I love the IS/AS/SR). > I do carry a flash for shooting people in rather large room (church etc), > but I almost all the time use the diffuser and the bounce flash, as I never > like the harsh light and shadow. > > Pop-ups are particularly handy when shooting people in close quarters indoor > (parties and such). I encounter many such cases, but the problem is again > too harsh a light and blown out . These days, I am carrying a LumiQuest > SoftScreen in my pocket.
RTF would be more useful if it has a tilt up feature, like Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 has. Since, by definition, RTF is for a stop gap measure for the close range flash, the ability to bounce makes a lot of sense. It should be very easy to design just a manual tilt, just hold the flash head part and tilt upward. The, RTF becomes really useful. Other thing about RTF that I always wonder is why can they not locate it to somewhere else other than on top of the prism housing. If and when Pentax go FF (God forbid :-), they will probably have no place to put it. I like the PZ-1 arrangement, but I can see no more room like that in today's compact cameras. Hope they can design some sort of collapsible (or pantagrpgh type) stuff and bury it in the side of grip ect, so that you can just pull it out etc. Anyway, the problem with the current RTF (by any mfr) is its location and only a simple forward lighting. Power is usually enough for the close quarter bouncing. Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
