Michael, Try about 5.6 with the aperture ring. Leave the rest of the camera in program and I think that it will not set the shutter below 1/30 and not greater than flash synch speed.
Bruce Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 12:13:45 PM, you wrote: MC> Bruce, MC> With the ZX-L, I cannot select TTL, my only choices are A, M and P-TTL. MC> I used fast film (Portra 800). MC> Could you offer a little guidance about camera settings with flash? In MC> this instance, I was using the FA 50mm f/1.4. MC> I used the Program AE (a smiley face on the ZX-L), and the camera MC> selected a shutter speed of 45 and pretty small apertures (somewhere MC> around f/11). MC> I have also tried using shutter-priority and setting the shutter speed MC> at 30, which gives larger apertures close to wide open. In these MC> settings, ambient light dominates, so I get a yellow color shift which MC> is not necessarily a problem. MC> A third possibility I considered was using M and setting the shutter MC> speed at 20 or 30 and then manually selecting an aperture around f/2.8 MC> to f/5.6? MC> What camera settings do you use in situations like this? MC> Thanks, MC> Michael MC> Bruce Dayton wrote: >>Michael, >> >>Having used 360's extensively, the mode you are probably referring to >>is P-TTL where a pre-flash for measurements is taken. In practice it >>looks like one really long flash rather than two short ones. >> >>I have not really noticed an excessive amount of shut eyes due to >>blinking on hundreds of pictures taken. Two differences - 1) I have >>used an MZ-S. I don't know if the delay between pre-flash and main >>flash is longer with your camera or not. I would not suspect it to >>be. 2) I don't normally shoot with flash in as dim a light as you are >>indicating. This may have more to do with it. The dimmer the light, >>the longer the flash duration will be. This would give people more >>opportunity to blink. Also the slower the film and more stopped down >>the longer the duration. >> >>A simple test would be to use those variables, plus compare P-TTL to >>TTL and see if you notice any difference. >> >>Just a few thoughts. >> >> >>Bruce >> >> >> >>Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 10:00:12 AM, you wrote: >> >>MC> On Saturday evening, I used my new (to me) AF360-FGZ to take some >>MC> pictures at our Christmas party. When I got back the prints, the >>MC> majority of the photos had at least one person with their eyes closed. >> >>MC> The house was fairly dark and the revelers had imbibed quite a bit of >>MC> Christmas cheer by the time the camera came out. Since everyone's eyes >>MC> had adjusted to very dim lighting, I am wondering if the preflash on the >>MC> AF360 caused people to blink so that when the photos were taken, their >>MC> eyes were closed? >> >>MC> Any thoughts? >> >>MC> Michael Cross >>MC> Chico, CA >> >> >> >>
