While I agree with Bob that natural light is almost always better than flash, it isn't always practical. Here's a comparison of the same bird shot with and without flash. Now, if I had better long glass, I might be able to pull off more available light wildlife shots, but the A400 is extremely prone to color fringing when backlit even by a bright, indirect sky. Here's the no-flash shot. Color is nothing special, there is more modeling of the shape, but there's also an abundance of fringing. I could PhotoShop the fringing out of there but given the overall dullness of the shot, it wouldn't be worth the trouble, IMO.
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14783692&size=lg Here's the same bird shot with flash fill. It's not full power. The flash comp was set at -1 stop. But -1.5 would have been better. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14780352&size=lg I'm hoping that Pentax shows up with a DA* 400/4 some time soon. And it's less than $1500. Paul -- 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.
