On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Barry B. Bean wrote:
> That much I'm reasonably clear on- my question is what difference
> this makes for fill flash. For instance, if I'm shooting guys wearing
> hats at noon and don't want them to have identical shadow-faces, but
> don't want to expose the additional stop and wash out their
> surroundings, which will serve as the better fill flash?
That depends on your distance, and ISO of your film at 1/60th synch
speeds, OMs do not do well with fast films and harsh light (one ends
up with too steep an f/stop). FP mode has limitations because the
effective power of the flash is reduced because of the multiple
discharges, meaning a wider stop is necessary at a given range/ISO.
I think you may be better off (in terms of increased range & f/stop
combos) with the more powerful unit of the two.
At the risk of sounding atavistic, I'll go one further and say that
using flash on manual (WARNING: Non-OM content !) beats any other
means of using a flash besides a test shot on a flashmeter, or
heavens forbid, the use of a system (NIKON D for example) that uses
distance to calculate the f/stop for the flash on auto.
Probably buying an OM-2000 and a HD handlemount flash is the best
solution to the OM-fill-flash "problem". Any increase in synch speed
means a big difference in your fill-flash range & flexibility.
*= Doris Fang =*
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