Gareth Jones
October 1st, 2003, 11:30 PM
I am new to the digital world having bought my S2 only a month ago, so please excuse what maybe an elementary question. I feel I have read all the instruction manuals thoroughly but obviously may have missed something.
I'll go for the most recent job which was shooting a guy on a trading floor. I used the SB80dx. the camera was set to manual, using Nikon 12-24mm 1/15 @ F5.6 400asa (effectively allowing for the background to be 1/2 stop under) using the diffusion dome, flash on TTL matrix. The subject was fairly close to the camera about 2 metres. To cut a long story short the flash was over exposing even when I had minused the output by 3 stops. I tried all different anlges for the flash - direct to vertical (always with the dome). In the end the only way I could get the correct exposure was set the flash to manual 1/16 power and bounce it off the wall/celing to my left - I was stading on a small step ladder - the subject was in front and to my right.
Obviously this confuses the hell out of me and makes me really nervous about shooting anything that is changing rapidly and not allowing me to look at the postview. I had a similar experience at a press confrence and again working close I had to minus 3 stops on the SB80dx.
OK the question is - am I doing something fundamentally wrong, bearing in mind the SB80dx is working fine on my film cameras.
thanks for any advice.
Gareth
I'll go for the most recent job which was shooting a guy on a trading floor. I used the SB80dx. the camera was set to manual, using Nikon 12-24mm 1/15 @ F5.6 400asa (effectively allowing for the background to be 1/2 stop under) using the diffusion dome, flash on TTL matrix. The subject was fairly close to the camera about 2 metres. To cut a long story short the flash was over exposing even when I had minused the output by 3 stops. I tried all different anlges for the flash - direct to vertical (always with the dome). In the end the only way I could get the correct exposure was set the flash to manual 1/16 power and bounce it off the wall/celing to my left - I was stading on a small step ladder - the subject was in front and to my right.
Obviously this confuses the hell out of me and makes me really nervous about shooting anything that is changing rapidly and not allowing me to look at the postview. I had a similar experience at a press confrence and again working close I had to minus 3 stops on the SB80dx.
OK the question is - am I doing something fundamentally wrong, bearing in mind the SB80dx is working fine on my film cameras.
thanks for any advice.
Gareth