Re: Optio S4 - first impressions

[graywolf]

Older automatic flashs give you 1, 2, or 3 possible f-stops. The smaller f-stops 
give you less distance. You set the selected f-stop on the camera to the one the 
flash gives for that film. When there is enough light the flash shuts off. It 
give correct exposure as long as you are no beyond the maximum distance for that 
f-stop. A dedicated flash automatically sets the ME Super's shutter to the X 
sync speed when you turn it on.

There are special circumstances, like fill flash when you have to know how to 
trick the flash to give good results, that are fairly easy on a fancy TTL flash, 
but mostly the plain old auto flashes work well.

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Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Len Paris wrote:


I would hazard a guess that he was referring to daylight fill flash
where older cameras had too slow a flash sync shutter speed to be as
practical as some of the newer cameras. Perhaps I misunderstood?


No, perhaps *I* don't understand (I am of the AF, TTL generation, you
see :-).


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