I'm not saying it does cause problems - haven't really tested it much. I currently only have the 360FGZ for P-TTL and it is not powerful enough to put much of a modifier on it.
I'd like to hear some more detail about what you mean about the way you used to work. Are you just referring to working distances or certain scenes or poses or what? -- Bruce Monday, March 5, 2007, 1:46:29 PM, you wrote: GD> Hmm. I'd have to see some evidence of problems, but I imagine that if GD> you're really diffusing the light a lot this could conceivably happen. GD> I don't see how the wedding photography could work with a preview ... GD> given that most of your shooting happens in very constrained, set GD> distances and poses, all you need to know is the right lens opening GD> for the given scenes. I used to do weddings way back in the mists of GD> time with a Nikon F and a Rolleiflex TLR, didn't even have an auto- GD> flash at that time, just a good-old-potato masher, and found that in GD> a reception situation I just had to know three-four setups and click GD> the aperture to the correct one for the situation. GD> With a digital preview, I'd calibrate my head to the setups more GD> accurately and then just dial in the aperture as needed. GD> Godfrey GD> On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Bruce Dayton wrote: >> Light modifiers are bounce cards, diffusers, umbrellas, light spheres, >> etc. Where I could imagine the problem is that the pre-flash systems >> only send out a very small pop to determine exposure. The situation >> becomes somewhat like when you try to meter past the capability of the >> meter - like old stop down - so the pre-flash is small and the light >> modifier cuts 3 stops of light and the little pop didn't put out 3 >> stops to begin with. Now the reading would be incorrect and the main >> flash pop would be too strong. Not saying it would always happen, but >> I could imagine problems with some kinds of modifiers - especially the >> stronger diffusers. >> >> In some situations, taking a shot and then looking at the histogram >> would work well. In wedding photography, that would mostly not work - >> you can't afford a test shot most of the time. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
