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Subject: [OM] T32 question
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:30:35 -0700
 Halfway through shooting a roll of film with flash, I noticed that I'd set
it to 'manual', and thus all the shots I'd taken were at 1/250th, that being
the default setting I use.

 Unsurprisingly, all I have on that half of the roll of shots is the
right-hand side of the image exposed, and the left 3/4 is completely blank. 

 What's weird is that the right-hand side is blown out all to heck -- the
T32 was obviously firing at full power all the time, and when shooting, I
certainly noticed it was firing, which was why I didn't think anything was
amiss.

 A couple of questions:

 1. Is this documented behaviour? I had the T32 set to the "TTL auto
control" side of the panel, and looking in the PDF file from e-sif, I can't
see any explanation of what it'll do if the flash is set to expect control
from the camera, but the camera doesn't control it. Presumably the camera
never says 'okay, that's enough light', so the flash keeps firing, I guess.

 2. Is this _sensible_ behavior? If it were me, I'd rather have the flash
not fire at all in this situation, because that would be a warning that
something was wrong -- as it was, I happily shot off a dozen shots thinking
everything was okay. I'm not quite sure how it would work electrically, I'll
admit; perhaps have the 'stop firing' pin on the flash shoe start high if
it's in TTL control mode and get pulled low, that way the flash would know
that the camera isn't going to tell it to stop so presumably the camera's
confused..

 -- dan

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