Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This wouldn't have anything to do with the different shutter release modes on the camera--maybe a glich there--just thinking out loud. S Beckham On Dec 28, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Dante Stella wrote: > Mark - > > Actually, I've been there and done that - the SB-800 is great but it (1) > has less power than a Metz 54 and (2) tends underexpose a little in A > mode. But it's a valid solution and one that I may revisit due to the > smaller opportunity for weird preflash stuff. > > I completely agree with the rest - bouncing up and downlighting at high > power is the way to go because it looks like an overhead light and tends > to put the shadows in places where they are not offensive. And for a > well-composed shot, it's always preferable (at least to me) to have more > things in focus. > > Does anyone know if the M8/M9 synch circuit can handle a Vivitar 283, old > style? > > Best New Years! > Dante > > On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>> Did you not try the flash unit with the camera at sometime before hand? >>> Once >>> again, if I were one to use a flash unit with any camera, I'd find out >>> how >>> well it worked with the camera before hand under any circumstance. >>> Certainly >>> considering I may not have used it before. I would make at least a half >>> dozen snaps to make sure it was ready for use at the time of the >>> ceremony or >>> event I was going to shoot! >>> >>> In the end I do trust you managed some good images considering your >>> explanation of the elderly gentleman in question? >>> cheers, >>> ted >>> >> >> >> If it was me I could easily have bounced my sb800 off the ceiling. >> I do that all the time. >> Making for the same modeling that ceiling lighting would. >> And which I don't think is really so bad. Down lighting. >> But at f 8 not f 2. It would look like the real light in the room. >> And with a blazingly fast in effect shutter speed instead of squeeze and >> pray shudder speeds. >> >> The speed in effect becoming the flash duration. >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information