Is it set to anti-red-eye-flash mode? http://photo.net/photos/RickW
--- On Wed, 8/11/10, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> > Subject: Weird lag with p-ttl flash > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 7:58 PM > One advantage of being good friends > with a band is that you get a lot more freedom as a > photographer. Especially when they love the photos > that you take of them. Last week I was up on stage > with them for a while, which allowed me to actually get some > clear shots of the drummer. > > Last night another friend of theirs was practicing taking > pictures because she has a front and backstage photo pass to > a jazz festival this weekend. She was shooting with a rebel > and a kit lens, and was taking pictures using the pop-up > flash. I decided to try some flash photography myself > and found that the best results seemed to be from using my > water jug diffuser with the sides wrapped in aluminum foil > so that it was more of a softbox than a photon grenade. > > Rather than my usual habit of using the flash in manual > mode, I was using it in TTL, and I noticed that there was > what seemed like a two second shutter lag. Press shutter, > short wait, flash, long wait, click/flash. Is this > normal? I've never noticed such a long delay between the > first and second flashes before. The batteries weren't > desperately low, but they weren't completely fresh either. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com > sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
