olympus-digest Tuesday, April 9 2002 Volume 02 : Number 3286
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 15:30:24 -0600
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] An interesting holiday finding
So I'm just back from two weeks wandering around the UK, and I noticed the
following things:
1. My 'lens cap' was a 24/2. This is wide enough to let me take shots of
buildings without winding up walking backwards into the other side of the
road, fast enough to be usable inside (especially for shots in museums et al
- -- same thing re: getting far enough away applies there), small enough to
fit in a neverready case, and focuses close enough that I can take
reasonable shots of plants and suchlike; it's not a macro lens, but see
point 3. (and there were a distressing number of times I wanted a shift
lens.. sigh)
2. Other than the 24/2, I only really used the 65-200/4 zoom -- I don't
seem to take many 'travel' shots in the range between 24 and 100 or so. Not
sure why, but I certainly noticed it. I had some other lenses along, but
they didn't get a lot of use; in particular, I may as well not have brought
the 35/70 at all, which is weird because that was the one I was expecting to
use the most.
3. Changing lenses = pain in the ass. Carrying lots of lenses around = pain
in the ass. I carried a macro lens with me, but hardly used it -- for just
general wandering around and taking shots, I'll never use it. If I'm going
to botanical gardens or something, sure, but 990f the time I didn't miss
it at all. Ditto with the superwide 17mm lens I had along -- the 24mm is
wide enough to be 'very wide', and the 17mm just went a bit too far.
In the end, though, I think I could get away with a travel kit of just the
24/2 and 65-200. The 50/1.4 I brought was useful for taking shots at the
juggling convention where it's just gym lighting, so I needed a pretty hefty
blue filter to get the colour right and thus all the speed I could get, but
that's pretty specialised.
-- dan
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Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 14:30:26 -0700
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] OM-2S flash question
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.
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Thanks, Jim, Ian, Clint, Mike, and everyone for your help! I tried
the OM-2S again yesterday and it seemed to work fine when I depressed
the shutter. I took pictures of Eddie Cat sleeping and I will get
them processed today to see how they came out. Clint, yes, I have a
ready light both with my OM-1 and the OM-2S. The T32 works, too. The
one thing I can't figure out at this point is sometimes it flashes
after the flash goes off, and sometimes not. I don't know if this is
related to when I shoot in TTL mode or manual. I'm still a bit
confused by using it in the manual "auto" mode as opposed to the Auto
TTL "auto" mode. All of this would be clarified if I had the manuals,
but I will have to wait until I get back into the office to download
them from the eSIF. I will start taking notes under what settings on
how things work, and if I have problems, I'll post them here. I think
everything is working correctly except for the user! :-)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:32:45 EDT
From: ClassicVW@xxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Flashmatic -was: Oly digest V2 #3283
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I've found that showing this formula is easy for a beginner to grasp:
flash's guide number
Aperture- (F setting number) = ------------------------------
flash to subject distance
<snip>
George,
Thanks very much! And thanks to Ian for than incredible "dissertation", too!
I also need to read John Lind's excellent web site on flash
photography. Thanks again everyone!
Cheers,
Stephen.
--
2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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