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Re: [OM] T20 + OM2 - fill flash?

Subject: Re: [OM] T20 + OM2 - fill flash?
From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 21:19:34 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Dirk and Carla Wright wrote:

:OK, I have a problem about getting fill flash using a OM2n + the T20 flash.
:The manual just says, " use the T20 in manual mode". But, how do you
:control the flash power that way? There is no film setting on the flash
:itself, like I'm used to on after market flashes (sunpak, vivitar, etc), so
:I can't do the old trick of setting the film speed on the flash to twice
:the actual film speed to get half power (or to 4x film speed to get quater
:power, etc). Am I correct in assuming that the T20 is not designed for this
:purpose?

Manual mode? I'd take that as "set flash to GN20 (switch at full left, I'd
guess), and lens aperture is calculated as 20/distance to subject which
can be read off lens barrel. Keep this stuff in metric, mind you! Don't
get feet and metres mixed like the Pathfinder project did ;-0

/Acer "steppenwolf" Victoria
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