Bruce, I was testing this indoors. There was almost no ambient light (it was at night with all of the lights off). I set the shutter speed to 1/125, aperture was f/8. I did it like this b/c I just wanted to test the flash exposure compensation. When I was in Manual mode and I used the internal pop-up flash, the flash compensation worked great (the image was over or under exposed by whatever amount of flash compensation that I set). When I tried the exact same thing with the 500ftz, it would work as it should if I was setting flash "over" compensation (the image would be brighter than "correct" exposure) but when I tried "under" compensation (-1, -3, etc), it would do absolutely nothing. In other words, an image taken with no flash compensation had the exact same exposure (looked exactly the same) as an image taken with -3 dialed in on the camera.
Could you provide a little more detail, such as in manual mode, what is your shutter speed and aperture set to. And what do you mean by looks the same? Once you subtract too much the ambient light takes over. How bright is it outside where you are trying this? -- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, March 18, 2004, 10:35:30 AM, you wrote: JG> I'm having a problem getting flash compensation to work properly. I read JG> that if I put the camera on "M" that I could use the exposure compensation JG> function to act as flash compensation. This works fine with the pop-up JG> flash, but when I try it with the 500ftz, it only works if I am adding JG> compensation (+1, +1.5, +2, etc). When I subtract it (-1, -2 -3, etc), the JG> shots look exactly the same as they do with no compensation. Any ideas on JG> why this is happening? BTW, I'm using firmware 1.11 JG> Thanks. JG> Josh
