Hint, hint. The latest and greatest Canyon e-TTL flash, the 580EX II,
has re-introduced the normal flash controlled auto mode which has been
missing for many, many years. It has re-introduced 35 year-old
technology and is now... advanced. ;-)
The smartshooter procedure says don't even try to do TTL fill flash.
What they were doing for non-fill flash was just setting the aperture 1
stop below ambient so they got a slightly darker background ambient
exposure while the flash added enough extra light to bring the
foreground to correct exposure. They were counting on the TTL control
to expose for the difference.
Chuck Norcutt
Bill Pearce wrote:
> I'm with Dr. Flash, the smartshooter stuff is way too complicated for me,
> not an engineer.
>
> I was doing this kind of stuff thirty years ago with an RB67 and a metz auto
> flash. I set the camera to what I thought was the correct exposure for the
> ambient (no light meter necessary with negative film), and set the auto
> flash aperture to whatever fill I wanted usually -1, same or +1. It worked
> just fine!
>
> I've never been too hot on ttl flash anyway.
>
> Bill Pearce
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