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Re: [OM] flash and burned-out faces

Subject: Re: [OM] flash and burned-out faces
From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:55:52 -0800
on 12/11/02 11:59 PM, Richard F. Man at richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I feel like playing the game "Twenty Questions :-)" and going around in
> circles. OK, may be I am asking the Qs the wrong way, lets start again...
> first of all, this is not about fill flash, but situations that plain need
> flash...
snippo
> OK So far? Now in the quest of Flash Heaven, AND I already own a flash
> meter, AND I don't mind getting another flash, say, the Metz 54-MZ3. I can
> then:
> A) Put a reflector/diffuser and bounce away, or
> B) Use the manual GN and calculate distance, aperture and shutter, or
> C) Use the Flash meter to do what? How do I meter what the Metz-54 output?
> Is there a trigger outlet on the Metz? Or do I just press the Test Button?
> 
> I feel like a blind man trying to understand what an elephant looks like
> from different sighted persons describing different parts of the elephant :-O

Correct answer could be...

D) Buy Olympus 35-SP and use guide-number focus-linked 'flashmatic' feature.
This is similar to the manual flash + guide number option, but works simply
by focusing... yet another way the 'old outdated' cameras can yield better
results than the new AF-AE wunderbricks and P&S (almost typed POS <g>)
zooms...

BTW, I've gotten the 'overexposed main subject with perfectly exposed
background' too many times...
-- 

Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney... 


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