On 13 Mar 2002 at 11:03, Bruce Dayton wrote: > tom, > > I was thinking that it had more to do with getting more even light do > to flash fill moreso than TTL alone. On the older bodies, metering > for TTL did not include ambient light at all, so most images ended up > looking like dark backgrounds. With later bodies, ambient light is > taken into account and shutter speeds are lowered to slowest > handholding to allow as much ambient light as possible. Then the TTL > is just going to fill in where necessary. That would produce more > even results.
I think I work a little differently...I always drag the shutter as much as I can get away with, so I'm in manual mode, with the shutter usually around 1/30 or 1/60 and the aperture at f/5.6 or f/8. So the ambient levels are fluctuating wildly, but the foregrounds are generally right on. The issue I'm referring to isn't about even lighting in one photo, it's consistent exposure across an entire roll. The thing that really made this click for me today was a shot I developed this a.m....A girl with a strapless dress is down in the right lower corner, usually an area that doesn't get much meter weight. However, I'm focused on her, and she's perfectly exposed. > > Have you tried using slow films/fastest shutter speeds (1/250)? If > you did I would think that you would get results that would show the > inherent TTL metering problem of weddings - mostly white in frame - > face gets underexposed - mostly black in the frame - face gets > overexposed. What I'm saying is I don't get much of that with flash! I think it's got to be some sort of hybrid algorithm like Brendan says, because it's not *totally* predictable. I'm going to test it out, but I was just wondering if anyone had any info, since the "FA lens distance info" subject comes up now and again. tv - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
