I was gonna tell you a whopper about walking around with flash bulbs hanging out of my mouth, ready to pop into the big huge flash gun, a la Weegie, about guide numbers and quickly flicking the aperture ring to and fro as I mentally calculated distances and the like.
But, no, I have a Captain Billy Whiz Bang flash. Okay, maybe not quite that fancy, but a couple of weeks ago, I acquired from Vic, from whom I bought my LX, his Vivitar 3700 flash. It has the Pentax module installed, to take advantage of the ttl flash metering of the LX.
So, as Ron Popeil says of whatever his rotisserie oven is called that he shills on late night TV, you just "set it and forget it".
I set the aperture to f11 for a bit of DOF, since I thought focusing in the dark might be dodgy, and shot away. Now, thinking that the faces might be burned out a bit, I set the EV dial to -1/2 stop, to tone down the flash a bit. Seems from reading other threads, it may not have made any difference, as maybe that dial only works for non-flash ttl metering?
I guess I better go read the manual.
And, thanks for the compliment on the idea. I'm not displeased with how it turned out (like I said, the proofs that I brought into the cafe today were way better than those I scanned for this list). I'd like to try something similar sometime. It's a fun exercise, regardless of the results.
cheers, frank
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From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: The Eggman Cometh; or Koo Koo Katchew Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:24:35 -0800
Frank,
what a great idea!
Now, you gotta tell me ... how did you set the flash. You don't have one of the Captain Billy Whiz-Bang flashes, so how did you know how to make all the settings to camera and flash?
shel
frank theriault wrote: > > So, here's what I've been up to earlier in the week.
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=386090
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