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Re: [OM] Fill flash tricks (was: OM 35 SP or XA)

Subject: Re: [OM] Fill flash tricks (was: OM 35 SP or XA)
From: "Tom A. Trottier" <TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:24:52 -0500
Dear JUANITA,

If your OM meter suggests f/8 at 1/60, and the flash has an auto 
setting, for your ASA, of f/5.6, then you could expose at f/8 & 
1/60th and have the flash fill in at a 2:1 existing:flash lighting 
ratio.  I'd suggest 4:1, a two stop difference, looks better, so in 
this case, you'd have to set your flash so that f/4 is the aperture 
the flash unit suggests, and f/8 is what you use.

You might have to use manual rather than auto exposure for this to 
work. The camera might choose a speed slightly higher than 1/60th on 
auto.

Others' experience?

Tom

On 9 Jan 2001, at 10:39, sayeth JUANITA M. ALMEDA <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> On an OM 10, the suggested aperture setting for flash is 4, and 8 on an ASA
> 100 film. What would happen if I used the other apertures? If I used on step
> lower than suggested by the distance scale on the T 20, would that result in
> a fill in flash effect as suggested by Ray below?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Titoy
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Moth <ray_moth@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Olympus Mailing List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 10:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Fill flash tricks (was: OM 35 SP or XA)
> 
> 
> >Tom A. Trottier wrote:
> >
> >Dear Ray, Not TTL OTF flash, but manual or auto metering.& flash unit
> >controlled auto flash.
> >=======================================================================
> >Hi, Tom.  That's what I meant when I said: "I've always thought,
> >however, that you'd have to use auto-flash not TTL flash to get decent
> >fill-in."
> >
> >Regards,
> >
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> >Ray
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