With my MZ-S and FA28-105, with shutter speed set manually, the AF360 shows the following distances on the LCD panel: 1/180 70 ft 1/250 ~40ft 1/500 ~ 35 ft 1/1000 ~20 ft This was with the lens set at max aperture (5.6) and ISO manually set at 800.
If it were me, I would go with 1/180, which should be okay if you shoot at the peak of the action. Bill, KG4LOV [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PDML" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 12:31 PM Subject: MZ-S and flash capabilities... > Hey all, > I've got some questions about the MZ-S and it's flash system. At my > position at the paper, my primary duty is to shoot sports. If there is an > editorial assignment and a basketball game at the same time, the basketball > game has my priority (generally speaking). So I was pretty dissapointed that > the top "normal" flash sync of the MZ-S is only 180th of a sec, just a wee > shy of what I'd like to shoot at. Alot of ppl think that the 2.5 frames per > second motor drive would be a greater inconvenience but I don't use a > machine gun method for sports anyway. Anyway, flash is very important > because few of the stadiums that I shoot at have enough light to make good > exposures without it. So my question is mainly what kind of power loss are > we looking at when using the new 360fgz when in high speed sync mode? > Obviously I wouldn't expect to get good exposures with the camera set to > 1/6000, but, for example, what's the flash's max distance with the camera > set to 250th with 800iso film? What about with the shutter set to 1/500th? > Thanks in advance for any help. > > -- > Nick > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
