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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
06-09-2017, 01:31 AM
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Been back to this no end of times! So in TTL using M mode, if I close the aperture down by say 2 stops, does the flash output increase to match? (hence your comment about using shutter speed to control ambient light) The rest I think I understand now - basically the camera uses the flash as the main light source in pretty well all situations where you ask it to automate something.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-22-2016, 01:35 AM
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Wow, thanks! I'll have to re-read that a few times
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
08-19-2016, 09:51 AM
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Apologies if this has been covered but I couldn't find it if it has!
In the last year or two I've been getting the hang of fill flash, with old manual cameras with leaf shutters, and another old flash unit. I do have, somewhat unregarded in a drawer, my Super Program and AF280T flash. The latter I bought a way back not long before I stopped taking film pictures, so I don't have much experience of it at all, and at the time I didn't have a Scooby how to fill anything. So, I would appreciate some pretty straightforward instructions, that the manual doesn't cover. Sorry if this gets a bit wordy. Simple indoor flash photography is no problem, but fill in bright sunlight, I'm not so sure.
With little or no automation, I'd set up fill flash like this. Set flash to auto, read off the required aperture (e.g. f4), stop down another two (f8), and set the shutter speed according to ambient light (at f8) at or below max sync speed. Alternatively in manual mode, read off the aperture from the distance, the again stop down two stops and set the shutter speed.
With the AF280 I could do the same, but is there a better way? Some way of using the TTL function, as this works with the Super Program? I presume just using TTL as is would give too much flash light. I don't think the ISO slider on the flash does anything other than change the lookup table on the back. Would I have to go for some halfway by using TTL but setting aperture manually at two stops below what the table says? In which case is there any point using TTL over the normal auto setting?
Thanks
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