Hi Christine - Just a comment - at the maximum X-Synch speed and slower, changing the shutter speed only affects the ambient lighting. It has no affect on the flash - only aperture affects flash. I think there is some affect with high speed synch. MCC
----- Original Message ----- From: Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 11:52 AM Subject: Re: Can we talk about fill flash & pttl? Hi Dario, Thanks for your many replies! :) I think you were on track in your first reply -- it was still very bright out, and the camera, set to AV, wanted a fast shutter speed (1/500 +), even at ISO 200. After my first shot, I smacked my forehead and realized high speed synch would be the way to go...but then I still had problems... I suppose I could have stopped down some more, but I was afraid of loosing a nicely-blurred background... Looks like I'm going back to school on pttl flash this summer. I really appreciate yours & everyone else's thoughts on the subject! :) -c On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Dario Bonazza <[email protected]> wrote: >> Christine, >> In case of low-light shooting, I find the best way for using flash is to >> set the camera in M mode for exposing the environment and then add some >> flash for the main subject in the foreground. Also try spot metering, >> especially in case of a small subject against a wide underexposed >> background. >> Cheers, >> Dario > > I mean in this case the flash operation can be set to P-TTL. > Dario > > -- > 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. > -- 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. -- 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.
