I wrote:
>
> <<<I don't think anyone should use OM TTL auto flash without one hand
> firmly on the exposure compensation dial, especially for
> people-in-a-room shots. This technology is not nearly as good at
> figuring out what you want properly exposed as, say, a current Nikon or
> Canon kit.>>>
Charles Loeven then opined:
> We must have different OM systems!
> Are there two Olympus OM companies out there?
> I have always been more than happy with mine.
> The only problem I see is if you don't crop in camera enough.
Yes. With a 100 2.8 I get well exposed head shots. A group shot with a
shorter lens and you can end up with almost-postmortems. What the newer
flash systems have, along with many P&S cameras, is the ability to make
subjective judgements about what parts of the frame you are most
interested in. The focus zones are interactive and give a 3-dimensional
construct of the whole frame. Also, my 2S cannot read the DX latitude
code (can any OM's?) and will, for example, expose Superia 200 as if it
were Kodachrome 200. Don't get me wrong, the OM TTL flash was state of
the art in its day, but I get much better results by judicious use of
the compensation dial, which really is one of the handiest (and
under-used) tools of the OM2/4 series.
Actually the real problem at some events I photograph are the number of
people who wear too much black and get too little sun.
Morgan Sparks
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