Re[2]: TTL Flash Metering and Distance Info

2002-03-13 Thread Bruce Dayton
William, The biggest flaw I see to Tom's observations is when you bounce or diffuse the flash. How would the body go about knowing that is what you are doing? In those cases, you should see severe underexposure. My experience is that they work fine. Bruce Dayton Wednesday, March 13, 2002,

Re: Re[2]: TTL Flash Metering and Distance Info

2002-03-13 Thread tom
On 13 Mar 2002 at 14:03, Bruce Dayton wrote: William, The biggest flaw I see to Tom's observations is when you bounce or diffuse the flash. How would the body go about knowing that is what you are doing? In those cases, you should see severe underexposure. My experience is that they

Re[2]: TTL flash

2001-03-22 Thread Alin Flaider
Today's state-of-the-art flash exposure system basically combines the matrix metering with pondering the flash output according to focus distance info. The pre-flash - required to compute main flash output - is very short (likely less than 1/100 of the total power) and very close to the main

Re: Re[2]: TTL flash

2001-03-22 Thread Bojidar Dimitrov
Recently Alin Flaider wrote: To me it doesn't matter much as long as I still have to compensate to avoid getting 16% grays out of deep blacks tuxedos or pure white petals. And, as long as I have to think about colour reflectivity, why not take the time and do the compensation trick for too