I`ll second what Paul said, about replaying the wedding.
Too bad about the Metz, hopefully it can be repaired cheap.
Let us know how the natural light shots come out.
Steve Larson
Redondo Beach, California
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From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax Discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 3:57 PM
Subject: Wedding hell: Pentax: 3, Metz flash unit: no score
> So, today was the big day for my neighbour's grand daughter.
> She likes weddings so much, she decided to throw a second one
> for herself. Being as how it was for a neighbour and all, I did
> the photography thing.
> I decided that I have all these LX's, so I took 2 of them,
> and the MZ-5. Also, more lenses than I normally carry for this
> sort of thing, and my venerable Metz 60 CT-2 and a spare
> battery.
> We went to the bride's mother's house for a few pictures
> before the ceremony, so I got a chance to use the 50mm f1.2 and
> the 77mm for quite a few shots. We then went to the church,
> where I set my wife up with an LX with the action finder and
> 80-200 f2.8 on a tripod in the balcony. I stayed on the floor,
> using the MZ-5 with the 50mm f1.2 for the processional, the 77mm
> with available light for the ceremony, the 35mm f2 for the
> register signing, then back to the 50mm f1.2 for the aisle
> runway shots.
> It all went swimmingly, and I had half a dozen shots left on
> the MZ-5 after the ceremony, so I stuck the 20mm f2.8 on and did
> a few pictures in the limousine.
> We shot the formals at the Legislative building, which is
> a particularly nice piece of architecture, with all sorts of
> marble columns and tiles and the like. This all was going
> swimmingly, until the usual disaster struck. Every wedding I do,
> something goes wrong somewhere. Either the bride calls it off,
> or the groom is drunk, or someone's mother gets bit by a dog
> (yup, had it happen to the brides mother at a farm wedding once,
> she got chewed up pretty good too), or a camera fails. This
> time, I was merrily shooting away, when suddenly, I lost TTL
> flash. Bummer, I like TTL flash. So, I unplugged the TTL cables
> and hooked up a regular sync cable so that I could continue.
> Whoops, the flash was still firing at full output!!!! I had lost
> all automation on the flash.
> Super Bummer.
> Fortunately, I had listened to Mafud, and had bought Portra
> 800 for this one, so I just took the flash off the camera and
> opened up a couple of stops and kept right on shooting. The only
> adjustment I had to make was we moved to an area of the building
> with a big north window for illumination. Thankfully, I had
> finished the group shots, and was just working with the bride
> and groom by this time.
> Anyway, that my story, and I'm sticking to it.
> William Robb
>
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