Hi friends,
I don´t pretend to make you read this stuff; but if you like the
subject, I would be very pleased if you could help me.
When we use Olympus F280 synchro flash in auto mode with OM4ti,
selecting SuperFP or Normal OTF, the camera will calculate a right
exposure, metering the incoming light reflected by film plane.
I have noticed how in night photography, when I take a portrait
with my 50mm/f1.2, enhancing the subject but also background is out
of focus with a colourway of typical circles of confusion due to
the low light. In order to blur the background, using a short focal
distance I must go close to subject and select f1.2 to get the back
blurred.
Here is my doubt,
If my camera meters the light (center-weighted) resulting
1/8s but the subject is only 0.60m from my camera, the shutter
curtain is going to close as soon as the light beeing metered
by OTF(off-the-film)system has properly exposed the film; resulting
my background rendered in rich black, due the camera shot at
1/60. This sytem is great because you avoid an overexposed picture
but;
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How can you balance the light from something close the camera and
the background?
1.Using a short-telephoto Zuiko 85mm/f2, in order to move away from
the subject and I get the background blurred still reducing two
stops down.
2.Using exposure compensation; but I think the shutter speed is
going to be lower.
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When I used to shoot with my OM-1 with my flash sync to 1/60 and
I had to choose the right aperture according to distance to subject
I never thought about hand-shaking, but with this system I never
know at which shutter speed is going to take the picture.
If I want to take a portrait using flash and meter the exact light
coming from the redish sky. Will I have to put in manual mode the
camera and put the right aperture according to subject distance???
Please HELP, HELP, HELP...I thing this is enough to drive you mad!!!
Thank you for having readed this stuff!!!
Dave
OLYMPUS FOREVER!!!
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