Thanks Jeff,
I was basing how the auto fill-flash worked from reading the manufacturers
promo literature and a few friends instruction manuals. Thanks for
clarifying that point about the matrix metering. Obviously more manufactuers
hype. The issue remains that no matter how the other companies do it, Oly
users are the only ones stuck still adjusting fill-flash manually. Not a
problem from a personal standpoint, I've been doing it for years like most
of the people on this group. But it's a real turn-off for new potential Oly
users.
Regards,
John Austin
>At 08:29 PM 2/23/98 -0800, John Austin wrote:
>
>>in his post. Canon, Nikon, Minolta and Pentax all offer exposure and flash
>>systems that will accomplish all of the above automatically. They can do
it
>>because they use a little thing called matrix metering. Even switching an
>>OM-2 or OM-4 to Auto will not accomplish this, since Olympus uses average
>>metering for TTL.
>
>I don't believe that this has anything to do with matrix metering since
>plenty of medium format systems without matrix metering offer variable
>ratio fill. It has to do setting the exposure for the background prior to
>firing the shutter and then using TTL flash metering during the exposure.
>
>I generally find fixed fill ratio flash (like in P&S cameras) an
>aggravation as I prefer a ratio of 1:4. 1:2 is very noticeable and causes
>an effect that is quite obvious.
>
>
>Jeff Spirer
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