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Subject: [OM] Re: [Digital] What I've been missing...
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:26:32 -0700
At 10:04 AM 03/03/2006, Mike Lees wrote:

>Didn't Olympus license technology from Minolta for the Full Synchro F280?
>
>I must admit to being similarly impressed with my C*non 580EX. It sounds
>almost the same with the wireless features, wide-angle diffuser etc. It
>also has a "catchlight" for use with bounce flash. It does FP Flash and
>has a strobe mode where you specify how many flashes per second it
>should emit!

Yep, there's a strobe feature on the 5600HS(D) as well, selectable 
from 1Hz to 100Hz.  Slick.

>The only thing I have trouble with is the pre-flashes. Since it isn't
>OTF it fires two flashes - a low power pre-flash to determine the
>exposure and then the real flash. Usually these flashes are in such
>quick succession that you hardly notice, other times it fires a
>pre-flash on a half-press of the shutter - which usually take me by
>surprise.

Yeah, it's the same with this flash (and the built-in pop-up on the A1 itself).


Garth


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