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Subject: [OM] Re: Help with FL-50
From: "James Royall" <jamesroyall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:42:19 +0100

Someone may have already suggested this, but it's late and I'm a couple
of days out on my reading of the list. Here's some suggested settings:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1022&message=16048466

James

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:03:41 -0600, "Untitled" <oly-zooko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> 
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Several questions regarding the FL-50 flash.
> 
> I am borrowing a friends FL-50 right now. Although I havent used it much
> - which is good cuz that means I probably wont spend that much $$ on a
> flash. The couple of times that I did use it - I wasnt very happy with
> the results. The photo's were a little dark. I used the flash in TTL mode
> and figured it would be automatic. Events that require flash are tough
> sometimes because you have to shoot quickly or lose the shot. Not enough
> time to fiddle around with the flash settings.
> 
> A couple of photo that I took were nice and bright w/o post processing.
> The rest of them I had to post process in the Olympus software to
> "instant fix" and "auto tone" them...which made them brighter. A couple
> of photos were very grainy after post-processing.
> 
> I am not a very good flash photographer - I already know that. .
> 
> The zoom on the flash only goes up to 42mm. If I am using a 14 - 54 lens
> and shoot at 54 - will the flash output to cover that?
> 
> Here is a sample of one photo that I took last night....this came out
> good without major post-processing:
> 
> http://flickr.com/photos/12378900@N00/126732105/in/set-72057594104138449/
> 
> Here is another that I took for a school event - this one required
> post-processing and the faces are little orangy.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/universalschoolbuf/118178809/in/set-72057594091010578/
> 
> Your assistance is appreciated.
> 
> - Ali
> 
> 
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