A lot of people use historgrams instead of flash meters. I just did just that today. The result are juist fine. I would prefer using a grey card for this, but I forgot to bring one today :-(. The *ist D will stop down to the manually selected aperture (on the aperture rring) - it can't do anything else. The green button is just for light metering. the aperture simulator is missing (too bad, Pentax - are you listening??), but it will always stop down during exposure.
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Paul Stenquist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 2. september 2004 23:56 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Pentax *ist D and a Studio Flash On Sep 2, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > > > Paul, surely you don't have to press the green button (to measure the > light, > stoped down), when using a flash :-) > You probably don't have to. But I was never sure that the camera would know to stop down to a manually set aperture if you had not first pressed the green button. My ambient light is usually too dim to worry about, so I rarely check it. I sometimes use a flash meter to compare the light from the various strobes, but I rely more on the lcd and histogram for exposure info.
