Michael, No, let it go. The camera believes that you shouldn't hand hold it lower than 1/45 with your 35mm lens. That should be ok for the time being. Do a few test shots there and see how they turn out. You might try it on a few who didn't blink and a few who did.
The other thing to try is setting the shutter speed to max flash synch and 5.6 and see what you get. Perhaps the slower shutter speed is allowing people enough time to blink. Bruce Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 12:32:57 PM, you wrote: MC> Bruce, MC> Manually setting the aperture at f/5.6, the shutter speed doesn't go MC> lower than 45 in either Program or TV. Would it be better to set the MC> shutter speed at 30 in Manual mode to get a little more ambient light? MC> Michael MC> Bruce Dayton wrote: >>Michael, >> >>Try about 5.6 with the aperture ring. Leave the rest of the camera in >>program and I think that it will not set the shutter below 1/30 and >>not greater than flash synch speed. >> >> >>Bruce >> >> >> >>Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 12:13:45 PM, you wrote: >> >>MC> Bruce, >> >>MC> With the ZX-L, I cannot select TTL, my only choices are A, M and P-TTL. >>MC> I used fast film (Portra 800). >> >>MC> Could you offer a little guidance about camera settings with flash? In >>MC> this instance, I was using the FA 50mm f/1.4. >>MC> I used the Program AE (a smiley face on the ZX-L), and the camera >>MC> selected a shutter speed of 45 and pretty small apertures (somewhere >>MC> around f/11). >> >>MC> I have also tried using shutter-priority and setting the shutter speed >>MC> at 30, which gives larger apertures close to wide open. In these >>MC> settings, ambient light dominates, so I get a yellow color shift which >>MC> is not necessarily a problem. >> >>MC> A third possibility I considered was using M and setting the shutter >>MC> speed at 20 or 30 and then manually selecting an aperture around f/2.8 >>MC> to f/5.6? >> >>MC> What camera settings do you use in situations like this? >> >>MC> Thanks, >> >>MC> Michael >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>MC> Bruce Dayton wrote: >> >> >> >>>>Michael, >>>> >>>>Having used 360's extensively, the mode you are probably referring to >>>>is P-TTL where a pre-flash for measurements is taken. In practice it >>>>looks like one really long flash rather than two short ones. >>>> >>>>I have not really noticed an excessive amount of shut eyes due to >>>>blinking on hundreds of pictures taken. Two differences - 1) I have >>>>used an MZ-S. I don't know if the delay between pre-flash and main >>>>flash is longer with your camera or not. I would not suspect it to >>>>be. 2) I don't normally shoot with flash in as dim a light as you are >>>>indicating. This may have more to do with it. The dimmer the light, >>>>the longer the flash duration will be. This would give people more >>>>opportunity to blink. Also the slower the film and more stopped down >>>>the longer the duration. >>>> >>>>A simple test would be to use those variables, plus compare P-TTL to >>>>TTL and see if you notice any difference. >>>> >>>>Just a few thoughts. >>>> >>>> >>>>Bruce >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 10:00:12 AM, you wrote: >>>> >>>>MC> On Saturday evening, I used my new (to me) AF360-FGZ to take some >>>>MC> pictures at our Christmas party. When I got back the prints, the >>>>MC> majority of the photos had at least one person with their eyes closed. >>>> >>>>MC> The house was fairly dark and the revelers had imbibed quite a bit of >>>>MC> Christmas cheer by the time the camera came out. Since everyone's eyes >>>>MC> had adjusted to very dim lighting, I am wondering if the preflash on the >>>>MC> AF360 caused people to blink so that when the photos were taken, their >>>>MC> eyes were closed? >>>> >>>>MC> Any thoughts? >>>> >>>>MC> Michael Cross >>>>MC> Chico, CA >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >>
