Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal: You are probably suffering from the same thing that fools the non flash metering, that is the tone of the object. If the average reflectance of the object is not 18%, the exposure will be off. For example if you are shooting a white marble statue, it will turn the flash off too soon and make it appear grey. The second problem with flash is the light falls off drastically from foreground to background. If the scene you are iluminating is not all in one plane , the foreground objects will be over exposed and the background underexposed. Regards, Robert At 11:13 PM 8/21/99 +0200, you wrote: >I am now examining the Velvia and Provia slides taken during our holiday >trip in Germany. While the results are generally excellent, I noticed >serious problems with flash exposures. > >Two flashes were used: either the Metz 40 MZ-3i or the new Leica SF20. >The latter worked well for daylight fill-in flash BTW. >The problems were all in settings where I was e.g. taking details of >statues and wall decorations in churches and so on. > >I am not much of a "flash man", so my remarks may risk sounding like a >beginner. > >I am always working in Program mode on the R8 (lens on smallest f-stop, >shutter time dial on 30 P, flash in TTL mode). Never ventured into the >more elaborate A mode with flash. I am sure than I am within maximum >flash range for the respective flash. >What the hell I am doing wrong? > >TIA > >Pascal >NO ARCHIVE > >-------------------------------------------------------- >See my photo pages at http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/ >-------------------------------------------------------- >t h i n k d i f f e r e n t a p p l e c o m p u t e r >-------------------------------------------------------- ><<< PGP public key available on request >>> > >