Mark, I don't think anyone has replied to this because they don't know the answer. I'll give my best guess. I believe that that flash quench is based on the body's signal that enough light has been received. The exposure compensation would then affect the flash accordingly. To get fill flash compensation, you set the flash itself. I believe that the fill flash compensation is affected by the body's exposure compensation. Therefore, you should be able to set the flash to -1.5 and use the body compensation at will and the flash will always compensate -1.5 from the bodies metering. The theory is that exposure compensation is not much different than exposure lock or manual control and the flash compensation would work with those also.
Easy to test. Get a roll of slide film. Set the different compensations to large amounts +- 2 stops and take some test shots carefully documenting the settings. HTH Bruce Dayton Thursday, January 31, 2002, 11:23:44 AM, you wrote: ME> So I spent a bunch of time last night bonding with my AF-360FGZ. Cool flash ME> and a major step up from my AF-280T! Everyone's feedback yesterday helped ME> me get in tune with the flash user interface. It's not as bad as I first ME> thought, and the wireless capability is really cool! ME> Of course I have another question.... I'm really interested in using the ME> AF-360FGZ as a daylight fill flash for landscape work (i.e., to emphasize ME> foreground elements in the shade). One way to do this (I think) is to: ME> 1) Set the aperture and exposure manually ME> 2) Turn on the flash and dial in -1.5 exposure compensation ME> 3) Take the picture ME> Now, if I want to bracket, then it looks like I need to do the following ME> (say, to underexpose by 1 stop): ME> 1) Leave on-camera exposure compensation at 0 ME> 2) Set the aperture and exposure manually to underexpose by 1 stop ME> 3) Turn on the flash and dial in -2.5 exposure compensation ME> 4) Take the picture ME> Could I also do the following? ME> 1) Set on-camera exposure compensation to -1 ME> 2) Set the aperture and exposure manually ME> 3) Turn on the flash and dial in -1.5 exposure compensation ME> 4) Take the picture ME> Or in Step 3), should I also dial in -2.5? Hmmmmm.... Ultimately, what I'd ME> really like to do is put the system into some kind of "daylight fill" mode. ME> This (possibly mythical) mode would allow me to dial in -1.5 stops exposure ME> compensation into the flash, turn it on, and forget about it. I could then ME> shoot in aperture-priority mode, with or without on-camera exposure ME> compensation. If I dial in -1 compensation on-camera, the main exposure ME> would be under by one stop and the flash would be under by -1-1.5 = -2.5 ME> stops. If I dial in +1 compensation on-camera, the main exposure would be ME> over by one stop and the flash would be +1-1.5 = -0.5 stops. ME> Can any of the 360FGZ gurus out there help me out? ME> Thanks, ME> --Mark ME> - ME> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, ME> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to ME> 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 .
