My trick is to set the on board flash to On, and to -1EV. The external flash is set to +1EV. That's my baseline set up. When needed I fiddle up and/or down with both values, (or just one of them) depending on what effect I'm after.
-- MaritimTim 2009/8/14 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > Last week I did a quick photoshoot of a friend who's an aspiring actor > that wanted a headshot. I had my AF540 on a tripod, and was > controlling it wirelessly from my K20. > > There were several times that I wanted to turn the on camera flash > down to almost nothing, just using enough for control, or maybe a > little bit for fill. The K20 manual was nearly useless. > > How does one set ratios between on camera and off camera flash when > shooting wirelessly? > > It talks about using two AF540 or AF360 flashes, but I shouldn't need > to spend an extra $300 to do this. -- 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.

