Ooops. It's a PowerShot A20, not a SureShot...
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>From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:00 AM
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Flash sync & slavery (barely OM)
>
>
>All,
>
>Interesting thing here -- help please!
>
>Lacking the $$$ for an E10/20 OR a polaroid back for my OMs, I've
>managed to
>get the benefits of digital proofing for a studio lighting setup
>in the past
>by setting up the studio lights, then shooting the subject with a cheap
>little HP 315 digital with a slave & sync cord to the monolights
>in front of
>the HP's onboard flash and a ND filter in front of it's lens.
>Ungainly, but
>it worked!
>
>Now I've gone & "upgraded" to a Canon SureShot A20, mainly for the optical
>zoom that the HP lacks. Same setup re slave as the HP, but now
>the flash is
>NOT sync'd. I've tried every setting on the camera (manual/automatic,
>auto-flash/manual flash/redeye/etc) to no avail. I've played with
>the power
>setting on the monolights hoping that that would increase the
>flash duration
>to better catch the shutter opening, but that hasn't helped. Heck, I've
>even fired the cam directly at the monolight's built-in slave sensor with
>the same lack of results.
>
>Given that the Canon flash/slave/sync cord/monolight firing is virtually
>instantaneous, it seems to me that the shutter opening and the flash firing
>should all happen at the same time, giving me my digital previews.
>
>But NO!!! :) I find it difficult to believe that the shutter on the canon
>is so fast as to be affected by any lag in the slave triggering process.
>Per the docs, it shoots at a steady ISO100...
>
>Any ideas?
>
>TIA!
>
>Dave
>
>
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