Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] flash exposure technique
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:15:02 -0700

The aperture setting on the SF-20 does nothing but tell you what the 
maximum flash distance is for that aperture. It has no effect on the 
flash output. You have to use the flash's exposure compensation to 
adjust the output up or down.

John Collier

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 06:49 AM, vipul patel wrote:

> Recently I was at the web site of www.kbcamera.com . I was in flash
> exposure section of techique subset. It is written that if one wants to
> take picture of potraits or people then one stop should be added to
> flash gun. My question is as follows:
> Suppose I take potrait picture with flash gun SF20 and decided to keep
> camera's aperture(leica M6TTL) at f5.6, then do I  open aperture of
> flash gun to 4.0 or do I reduce it 8.0 prior to taking picture?

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