I don't think I could explain this in technical terms except that there must have been a significant lag between the time the shutter button was pressed and the actual exposure. I guess the pre-flash must have taken too much time or the battery in her camera was kind of low and the lag was caused by the fact that a lot of point-and-shoot cameras won't fire until the flash is ready. Since you weren't using flash, the shutter fired immediately for you. That's my guess.
My comment about red eye reduction was just a feeble attempt at humor, as evidenced by the winky smiley face at the end of my post. Such stuff is not intended to be taken seriously. Len --- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: RE: Problem with Preflash > A few weeks ago, my family was at a Hanukkah party. As a line of children bent below a bar in a limbo contest, my wife and I stood ready to photograph our 11-year-old daughter. My wife used her Olympus Stylus Epic, with the preflash on (by default); I used a Pentax Super Program, 800-speed film, an SMC 35/2K lens at f/2.8, and no flash. As our daughter passed beneath the bar, we pressed the shutter releases. > > The pictures came in last week. My shot shows our daughter straining below the bar. My wife's shows the girl behind her. > > --Paul Stregevsky > > Leonard Paris wrote: > > Red eye reduction systems work with a pre flash and I guess that is why they > are so successful. Subject blinks, eyes are closed for main flash. Voila! > No red eye. ;-) > > -------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
