On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:02 PM, AlunFoto wrote: > The main challenge with working a setup like his, is that you're on > full manual. There's no aperture coupling, so you have to stop down > the lens manually. Also, there's no P-TTL. You need to set the flash > for manual, and figure out the right combination of flash output and > aperture for yourself. Add a diffuser like his, and you are basically > down to trial and error to get it right. > > But once you do, you can use the same setup every time, and > concentrate on your motifs. Which is good because as as the guy says, > it requires a lot of patience. :-)
Thanks for the explanation, Jostein. That would force pretty intense learning about photography, especially exposure and focus. Let me see if I understand some of what you say [I suspect I don't entirely]: Absence of aperture coupling is equivalent to using an M lens? "No P-TTL" means there's no metering? [My guess is that's not right.] I have avoided the use of flash so far, so all that's a complete mystery to me. Would use of flash in this kind of photography be necessary? > And do take a look at Toine's webpages. He's pretty darn good. :-) > http://www.repiuk.nl/index.php/component/content/article/104-bugs Beautiful site. Amazing range of subjects, yet with commonality of style across most of them. The 360˚ panoramas are amazing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- 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.
