mike-C
July 17th, 2003, 02:53 PM
I would realy apreciate if any of you guys out there could try this one with your s2 and reply to tell me if I have a unique problem, or that they all behave like this.
A tripod might be useful and a view out of your front door if your street is fairly wide with some buildings in the distance and maybee someone standing about 10/ 15 ft in front of the camera.
Take a picture outdoors using your s2 in Program mode, then without mooving camera position even a millimeter, take a second shot but this time with the flash turned on.
Once with the flash turned on and once with it turned off.
Does your camera seem to drop the exposure down and darken the picture when the flash is turned on? You will only notice this by looking at objects in the distance where the flash has not reached, or if you have a power output compensator on your flash and you can turn the flash output right down so its a very small percentage of the daylight, like you would for fill in flash.
Or do this with the camera and flash set to 3D mode and no power reduction is required to be set on the flash, 3D will do a fill in job and thus reduce the flash output all by itself.
You dont realy need toreduce the power output atall as its the buildings in the distance that you will notice the drop in exposure on.
I would be grateful to anyone posting a reply, your flash has to be one that is fully compatible with the s2.
(Also do you notice that the colour balance has changed in the shot where you have used the flash and objects in the distance (not lit by the flash) have a more natural colour balance and are not so blue or green?)
A tripod might be useful and a view out of your front door if your street is fairly wide with some buildings in the distance and maybee someone standing about 10/ 15 ft in front of the camera.
Take a picture outdoors using your s2 in Program mode, then without mooving camera position even a millimeter, take a second shot but this time with the flash turned on.
Once with the flash turned on and once with it turned off.
Does your camera seem to drop the exposure down and darken the picture when the flash is turned on? You will only notice this by looking at objects in the distance where the flash has not reached, or if you have a power output compensator on your flash and you can turn the flash output right down so its a very small percentage of the daylight, like you would for fill in flash.
Or do this with the camera and flash set to 3D mode and no power reduction is required to be set on the flash, 3D will do a fill in job and thus reduce the flash output all by itself.
You dont realy need toreduce the power output atall as its the buildings in the distance that you will notice the drop in exposure on.
I would be grateful to anyone posting a reply, your flash has to be one that is fully compatible with the s2.
(Also do you notice that the colour balance has changed in the shot where you have used the flash and objects in the distance (not lit by the flash) have a more natural colour balance and are not so blue or green?)