Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Did you not try the flash unit with the camera at sometime before hand? > Once > again, if I were one to use a flash unit with any camera, I'd find out how > well it worked with the camera before hand under any circumstance. > Certainly > considering I may not have used it before. I would make at least a half > dozen snaps to make sure it was ready for use at the time of the ceremony > or > event I was going to shoot! > > In the end I do trust you managed some good images considering your > explanation of the elderly gentleman in question? > cheers, > ted > If it was me I could easily have bounced my sb800 off the ceiling. I do that all the time. Making for the same modeling that ceiling lighting would. And which I don't think is really so bad. Down lighting. But at f 8 not f 2. It would look like the real light in the room. And with a blazingly fast in effect shutter speed instead of squeeze and pray shudder speeds. The speed in effect becoming the flash duration. Mark William Rabiner