I shot a number of weddings on film and several on digital. Not a huge sample, but I find digital much easier. Its pretty hard to miss the exposure on digital. It's easy to check both the live few and histogram for each setup. The AF 540 FGZ flash can easily be set up to give you just the right balance of fill and ambience -- something that couldnt' always be achieved with the old "auto" flash setups. For example, i can use fill in an outdoor ceremony and shoot at f4/1/1000th with hgih speed synch. Best of all, you know your results aren't going to be ruined on the way to processing or in processing. Printing through overly dense negatives pretty much guarantees ugly results. Ditto using flash to pull up an ambient exposure that's way under. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Dayton" > Subject: Re: Another Day, Another Wedding > > > >I know you had several LX's (maybe still have them). I wonder if you > > ever shot weddings with them and if so, how the experience compared > > to using the latest and greatest from Pentax... > > As much as I liked the LX, I found it's refusal to fire the flash in backlit > situations to be > annoying enough that I only shot one wedding with them. The camera totally > buggered me because > of the flash control and I went to K1000 bodies instead. > I actually prefer the K1000 operation to the K20D (I know they are completely > different kettles > of fish) because the controls don't move around as easily, and because print > film is much more > forgiving than digital capture. > In the film era, I set the camera ot 1/60th, the lens to f/5.6, the flash to > f/5.6 and took > pictures. If I was underexposed, the flash took care of it, and if I was > overexposed I just > printed through the extra density. > Now I have to worry about overexposure, and I also have to worry about > accidentally bumping a > dial and screwing up everything. > These new cameras want to work as integrated systems with the flash units, > and I > am certain they > work well, but trying to make an AF540FGZ flash into an off camera unit is > too > much of a bodge > for me to bother with. > I suppose the answer is to look at the new Metz 76 unit, but I just don't > think > I'd make enough > use of a new flash, and my old 60 series flash is just too darned good to > give > up. > And yes, I still have 3 LX bodies and a full set of prisms. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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