That's a bummer. Reproduce your physical setup without film in the
camera, open the film door and fire. Did you see the flash through the
lens?
The other question has to do with "much of the Portra 160 roll was
underexposed beyond salvage". So, what about the stuff that was
salvaged? Was it ugly too but had enough ambient light to save it? Or
were some of the flash shots actually OK?
I don't know if you have a flash meter to measure actual output but you
can probably judge well enough if there's at least enough light that you
should have gotten a salvageable shot.
I don't think there's too many things that can go dramatically wrong.
The camera's sync could be totally off but if that's the case you won't
see any flash through the lens looking through the film gate. The
alternative is premature quenching by the flash but I'm guessing you can
eyeball that viewing through the lens... at least well enough to be in
the ballpark. Or, could you have really been at f/11? I think even 3
stops down would find something visible but maybe not really recoverable.
Good luck,
Chuck Norcutt
usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Just checked with the manager of the lab I use. She did not quite have
> everything ready due to trouble with their Frontier, but
> noted that much of the Portra 160 roll was underexposed beyond salvage
> due to a flash issue. Whaattt???? Jolt of disappointment went through
> me
> as my out of town guests will not have nearly as nice prints this year.
> I have some digital back-ups but the potential best where in the OM.
> Nothing fancy used either. OM-2 in manual with V283 on a bracket with
> remote cord on the usual yellow for use with F4. I use a Lumiquest
> thingie and sometimes
> trigger an additional bounce flash via yabe radio remote to help in a
> long room. Manager said no sign of exceeding synch speed , so
> accidental bumping
> of shutter speed not an issue and wouldn't lead to this result anyway.
> I did use a Tam 35-105 and sometime the Z. 85 F2 ro Z 50 1.4. The
> aperture
> ring (only on the Tamron) would bind on the front of the bracket
> sometimes if I didn't mount it far enough in front. I can't imagine
> DOF preview getting bound up
> at F11 w/o noticing it. I usually check for the adequate expose signal
> on the flash once with a test flash but then the Lumiquest thingie
> covers it up.
>
> Dropped everything after the call:
> Checked the flash with the sensor in the flash and not remotely, but
> auto mode seems grossly OK. Mounted the OM-2/Tam combination on the
> bracket, but could not
> reproduce any issue except the binding of the aperture ring as expected
> if not positioned properly. Could the sensor send a quench signal so
> prematurely that I wouldn't notice something was up? Perhaps bumped
> the aperture ring 3 stops and didn't notice even changing lenses?
> Was able to snipe a very reasonable Metz MZ-3 and already had the OM
> shoe but had to clean the contacts to get it to work. I wanted simple
> and reliable with little chance of foul-ups.
> Excuse me while I enter sulk mode.
>
> Dr. Ineffective Flash
> Mike
>
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