I was very impressed with Thomas' chart, but I'm in Joel's camp on this
one. I just stick my F280 on an OM-4t, slap it on SuperFP and shoot like
the photojournalists do. It does a great job at tidy-ing up the shadows.
It's use was the primary reason I sold my OM4 and bought another OM4t.
It's a very nice product, well worth the fiddling for critical use.
Skip
Original Message:
-----------------
From: Joel Wilcox jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:17:25 -0500
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Fill-in Flash with Olympus Flashguns
At 10:44 AM 7/16/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>At 10:48 16.07.02, Cy wrote:
>
>>How easy is it to do fill-in flash with the F280+OM4Ti? Is it simply a
>>question of setting the flash on "Super FP" and the aperture to a give a
>>shutter speed faster than 1/60, or is it more complicated than that? Does
>>the F280 automatically go into a "fill-in flash" mode if there is
sufficient
>>ambient light to make a correct exposure? All advice welcome! Thanks.
>>
>>-- from Cy in the UK
>
>The F280 in FP-mode is just another (continuous) light source, just like
>the sun, car headlights, or whatever. The camera don't know or care where
>the light is coming from, it makes the same auto exposure it always does,
>based on the total "amount of light".
>To really control the fill-in isn't as easy as you would think, but I've
>tried to describe one method here:
>http://www.fys.uio.no/~tbryhn/main/F280chart.html
>
>Thomas Bryhn
Hello Cy,
Yes, Thomas contributed richly to a recent long and interesting thread
about fill flash and other things. Please do see his chart. However, in a
kind of brainless but functional way, I have found that the F280 gives good
results in drive-by shooting mode. Just stick it on the 4Ti in FP mode and
meter to 1/125 or faster and you'll probably get a result that you'll be
pleased with. I've used it primarily with 100 ASA slide film, and no duds
yet.
Joel W.
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
--------------------------------------------------------------------
mail2web - Check your email from the web at
http://mail2web.com/ .
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|