But you shouldn't have to shoot fill flash to get a good flash shot
other than in bright light. The requirements for fill-flash are the
antithesis of the problem you described. You choose a long shutter
speed to brighten a dark background when shooting flash under low light.
You choose a fast shutter speed for fill flash since it's assumed the
background is already bright. The problem there is not brightening the
background but rather not overexposing the foreground.
If you described it properly, enabling a fill flash option is not the
solution. You said you're using a long shutter speed for min shutter
speed on the flash option. That's good. But you never did say whether
you had enabled one of the "slow" shutter speed options for AP flash modes.
If you still can't get it to work go to manual mode. Choose the
aperture and ISO you want and then take an exposure reading without the
flash. Back off the shutter speed a stop or two and control the flash
output with the manual power control or switch to flash controlled
"auto" mode. That's the way I shoot a T-32 or other manual flashes...
along with the histogram as a sanity check.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/3/2013 1:50 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> Hey! Whaddya know! I just looked at the menus!
>
> I hate when I have to do that. First - Chuck, I checked and my min/max
> settings are similar to yours. However, I found that there's actually a
> "Fill Flash" option for AP shooting, which is how I normally shoot. I'm
> going to experiement around the house this evening and see how the
> different choices work.
>
> Imagine that. Actually RTFM and digging through the menus. What will
> happen next?
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Metering mode?
>>
>> With the 17 quadrillion different combinations of settings in the
>> E-M5, I'm not going to venture into this one.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I'm not sure if I changed a setting or something, but the last couple of
>>> times I tried using the FL-50 on the E-M5 it looks like it metered only
>> on
>>> the subjects so they are too bright and isolated from a dark background.
>>> It used to do a nice balance where it acted more like fill-flash,
>>> especially in a room that was decently lit to start with. Now, it just
>>> lets the rest of the background go almost black.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>>
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