Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear All, Although I have the manual for the camera, I'm still not completely clear on how the R7 works with TTL flash in program mode. It seems to depend on a number of factors as to whether it uses fill flash, flash as the prime source of no flash. I'm hoping someone can shed some light (no pun intended :-) on a strange result I had, the other day, under the following conditions: Camera: R7 in Program mode, hand-held, shutter speed set to 1/30 sec. Fim speed: 400 ISO Lens: 60mm Elamrit macro, focused at about eight feet, set to min. aperture as advised for program mode. Flash: Metz 32 Z-2 with SCA-351, set to TTL mode, in hot shoe and angled upwards for bounce-flash. Location and lighting: indoors at noon, reasonably bright but no direct sunlight. Subject: family members sitting on a sofa. I didn't notice what aperture the camera predicted in the viewfinder or whether the three parallel bars for fill flash were lit (should have done). The resulting picture was correctly exposed but blurred. I noticed at the time that the shutter speed was slow and thought this possibly indicated that I was getting fill-flash; so, for the next shot, I set the camera to aperture priority auto (with integral full field metering, not selective), aperture f/2.8, and that one turned out perfectly OK - corerctly exposed and sharp. My questions are: 1. What should I do differently, in future, to avoid such a result in Program mode or would it be better always to use aperture priority for TTL flash when I need the flash to be the sole light source? 2. Is the blurred photo, as I suspect, the result of the camera deciding to five me fill flash, causing hand-shake to blur the photo, as opposed to using the flash as the prime light source? Thanks in advance for any hints. Regards, ===== Ray "The trouble with resisting temptation is you never know when you'll get another chance!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/