Hi Cotty, still some points:
> In practice, I flip my (Steve Larson inspired) switch, and set the power > switch usually to MS-L. In bright ambient light at reasonable distance > for, say a portrait, this allows the flash to fire and neatly fills in > shadows in the eye sockets / under a baseball cap. The camera will be set > to X, forcing it to use 1/75th sec shutter time, and I simply bring the > aperture in manual to match the exposure of 1/75 sec. Isn't it the same to switch the flash to manual mode ? If you use the AF 280T in TTL position on a camera without TTL the flash does a full flash, the same like in manual position. Which difference does your solution provide ? > I find that outside on an overcast day, I underexpose by up to a stop (I > shoot negs) otherwise the faces tend to burn a bit on the neg. Generally > it works well, although I'm restricted to using 1/75th sec and whatever > aperture that requires in the available range. Generally it's not a > problem using 200 ISO film. I'm happy with the results. On a bright day > it puts a great sparkle in the eyes for family snaps, which is really the > only time I use it. My 'real' portraits are low-key moody affairs, and I > never use flash for those. I use for that a very small flash with guide number 11 powered by a single AAA cell. The results are also nice and I don't need to carry the big AF 280T. Bernd _______________________________________________________ Personal email traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MacAds traffic to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the UK Macintosh ads http://www.macads.co.uk - 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 . - 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 .
