Chris wrote:
"If the negatives are underexposed by a significant amount...
why? Did you
have the 5n set to spot-meter by mistake? Were you using the built-in
flash past 10 feet or letting it provide the majority of light for the
exposure? What could have caused it, do you think?"
I'm chalking it up to plane-old inexperience. I was using a dedicated for
Pentax JCPenny non-TTL flash (Only flash I have). I hadn't really used that
flash on the 5N yet so I didn't know how it would perform, especially in a
large room or on groups of people. I had the flash set to auto-mode. The
setting on the flash calls for F8 when using ISO400 film. Probably a
combination of the flash reading the room's lighting wrong and the distances
being too high. I thought that the sync speed might have been too high but
the flash's manual says it was set-up for M series cameras and most of them
sync around 1/100 as well (per Boz's site). Did I mention that pictures
taken with my A3000 and the same flash came out ok, save for the poor
composition? The A3000 syncs at 1/60. I also took a couple shots with the
flash on manual mode (with the 5n) that came out OVERexposed due to my not
setting the aperture right.
SO
Learned that with the settings recommended, it'll underexpose with the flash
set to auto. Probably had enough light output to expose correctly if I
could have figured out the aperture setting needed.
OH well. Live and learn. At lease they weren't paying me.
Cory Waters
trying not to think about it anymore.
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