on 4/8/02 7:18 AM, Stephen Scharf at scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Sorry, let me get to the point....I hooked up my new T20 flash
> tonight to try to get take a picture of Eddie the Cat, and put it on
> auto, and put the camera on Auto mode...when I depressed the shutter,
> the shutter opened and stayed open for several seconds (like 8
> seconds or thereabouts), and then finally the flash went off and the
> shutter closed. I am not sure what is going on....I was taking a
> photo indoors at night with some room lights, but I would not have
> thought with a flash that it would take several seconds to make an
> exposure in Auto mode. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but I don't
> have manuals either for the flash or the OM-2S. I would have thought
> that the camera would have known the flash was attached as the little
> flash LED was lit up....but I was surprised at the long exposure,
> with the flash at the end.
Stephen -- camera set to "Auto", flash to "TTL control". The flash needs to
be ready - sounds like it was. I'm not sure what else it could be, but I
can't think of any reason why the flash wouldn't go right away. Someone will
know about this. Sounds like the OM-2s is a nice find, anyway.
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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