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[OM] Re: Flash coverage angles - Oly found to be optimistic

Subject: [OM] Re: Flash coverage angles - Oly found to be optimistic
From: Andrew Gullen <andrew.gullen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:05:08 -0500
on 2005/01/10 4:16 PM, Chuck Norcutt at chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> You may recall my recent post where I measured these light falloff
> values for a T-32 at coverage angles for a 24mm lens.
> 
> ...
> Fall-off from the center as 0 point:  T-32 @ 28mm
> 
> Top center  -1/3 stop
> Left center -1 stop
> Top left corner -1 stop

What were you using for a target and how far away was it?
 - If it's too shiny instead of matte, light will bounce away
   from the lens instead of scattering in all directions
 - If it's too close even a matte surface will have falloff
   as it won't be perfectly "lambertian".

Apologies if you've already taken this into account. Assuming you have,
that's interesting. Perhaps they assumed a certain amount of vignetting was
acceptable, given usual compositions - people in central areas of frame,
distractions like half the dog at the edges. :-)


Andrew


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