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Re: [OM] EM-5 flash question

Subject: Re: [OM] EM-5 flash question
From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 14:12:48 -0500
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> But you shouldn't have to shoot fill flash to get a good flash shot
> other than in bright light.  The requirements for fill-flash are the
> antithesis of the problem you described.  You choose a long shutter
> speed to brighten a dark background when shooting flash under low light.
>   You choose a fast shutter speed for fill flash since it's assumed the
> background is already bright.  The problem there is not brightening the
> background but rather not overexposing the foreground.
>
> Ahhh.


> If you described it properly, enabling a fill flash option is not the
> solution.  You said you're using a long shutter speed for min shutter
> speed on the flash option.  That's good.  But you never did say whether
> you had enabled one of the "slow" shutter speed options for AP flash modes.
>
> No, I hadn't.  Didn't even know they were there.  I will experiment with
the different modes tonight and see how they behave.


> If you still can't get it to work go to manual mode.  Choose the
> aperture and ISO you want and then take an exposure reading without the
> flash.  Back off the shutter speed a stop or two and control the flash
> output with the manual power control or switch to flash controlled
> "auto" mode.  That's the way I shoot a T-32 or other manual flashes...
> along with the histogram as a sanity check.
>
>
Thanks.  Good information to have.
-- 

Paul Braun
Music Junkie

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