Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On many older P&S cameras, the only way to get a slow shutter speed & wide aperture, that would capture sporting events, plays, concerts, maybe even a comet, is to turn on the flash. The flash does nothing, obviously, except select that camera mode. The flash light itself, simply dissipates into the ether. Modern P&S cameras don't suffer from this malady. But they did, twenty years ago... :-) JB At 09:47 PM 4/10/2005, Nathan Wajsman wrote: >I can do one better...back in 1986 I was standing with a crowd of people >in a very dark spot south of Gainesville, FL, looking at Halley's Comet. >People had binoculars, telescopes, tripods, long lenses etc. But one woman >kept taking pictures with her P&S and flash. I felt like gently explaining >to her that her flash was unlikely to reach an object many thousands of >miles away, but I left her alone. I did blind the whole gang at one point >by turning around and taking a picture of THEM with my flash. > >Nathan