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Re: [OM] Re: OM 35 SP or XA

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OM 35 SP or XA
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 08:46:45 -0500
One thing you might not know about the XA flashes is that even though the
flash cell controls exposure for asa 100 and 400,  this is not thyristor
control. The flash goes through a full dump cycle for every flash picture
taken.  Recycle time is the same whether your at asa 100 at 6 feet or asa
400 at 2 feet.

John  Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans van Veluwen" <hcvanveluwen@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OM 35 SP or XA


| : First of all, forget about fancy flash tricks with the XA-series.
They're
| : designed to accept a specialized type of flash rather than the
| conventional
| : shoe mounted units.  Consider flash with the XA cameras to be a point
and
| : shoot affair.
|
| The A11 & A16 flashes for the XA allow much more flash control than the
| average P&S. They have three modes: 100 ASA, 400 ASA, and manual. The
first
| are computer flash modes. Setting the flash to 400 when a slower film is
| loaded would give you some elementary fill flash capabilities. You can go
| further by changing the aperture after the flash has popped up, from its
| default value of F4 (for which the computer sensor is calibrated) to
| something smaller. You can change the ASA setting to tweak the ambient
light
| reading. Setting the flash to manual and using a smaller aperture than its
| GN would need for the given distance also gives you fill capabilities.
|
| But you're right of course that the larger rangefinders are much more
| versatile, allowing any flash to be used, and manual setting of both
shutter
| speed and aperture. Besides these cameras (well most of them) have the
| flashmatic system which is accurate, and very fast and easy to use
(although
| not very creative with a fixed aperture for one distance).
|
|
| hnz
|
|


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