Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric: I found the same thing with my Pentax isDS when shooting in bright sun between 11AM and 1 PM, I took these a couple of weeks ago in Boylston, MA: http://www.hemenway.com/TowerHill/ Most were shot RAW at -1.0 or -1.5 and even then some of the highlights and clouds are washed out. http://www.towerhillbg.org/ Jim Eric Korenman wrote: > Ok more TTL and DMR: > Did a portrait shoot this AM of a friend's little boy. DMR performed well > but I need to learn more my new digital existence. > 1) The DMR and R8 tends to blow out highlights in outdoor scenes when > there > a full range of direct sunshine and shadows. Found myself needing to > compensate by -1 to -2 stops. Got to wean myself of negative film's wide > latitude. > 2) Flash in TTL mode worked nicely indoors where the flash was providing > the majority of light. > 3) Flash in TTL mode in the outdoors failed miserably. I think my camera > got thrown into some weird mode - Everything was WAY overexposed. Even > after > I disconnected the flash I was getting insanely overexposed results. > Turning > the camera and DMR off, then back on seemed to fix it. > 4) Camera 'crashed' once. Locked up. I had to remove and replace the > battery. May have been the TTL thing. I am not sure. > I have shot about 200 exposures since I got back home - without flash. > The > DMR seems to be working fine. More testing in a bright backyard makes me > think that I need to underexpose most daylight scenes by -1 stops. In full > daylight, and at zero exposure compensation the histograms show that the > DMR > does tend to blow out highlights. > BTW- I am using the full metering setting (the open rectangle). > Eric > > On 9/10/05, Eric Korenman <faneuil@gmail.com> wrote: > >>There have been reports that TTL and the DMR simply does not work and >>switching the flash to TTL results in an error code in the R8 display. >>My R8 does not report an error code My R8 was just 'upgraded' by Leica NJ. >>Perhaps the coding in the R8 rom has changed? >>Not sure. >> Eric >> >> On 9/10/05, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@btinternet.com> wrote: >> >>>If I remember correctly the reason why TTL hasn't >>>worked on digital cameras in the past is that the >>>reflectivity of the surface of the low pass filter is >>>very different from film, presumably varying in some >>>non linear way that nobody has so far been able to >>>adequately compensate for. Maybe now, without the low >>>pass filter, the sensor surface is more like film or >>>maybe, in the test pix in question, the error is >>>negligible and under some other conditions the >>>incorrect exposure may result. >>>Frank >>> >>>--- Rick Dykstra < rdcb37@dodo.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Very interesting Eric. Lack off TTL flash control >>>>with the DMR has >>>>been a problem to my mind. >>>> >>>>I hope you can try it with longish lens on a subject >>>>that will really >>>>test the TTL. >>>> >>>>Rick. >>>> >>>>On 10/09/2005, at 1:03 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Your "buyer's remorse" seems to be fading away. >>>>> >>>>>It took me much longer when I bought my house. :-) >>>>> >>>>>Jim >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Eric Korenman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>As has been reported, I just assumed my DMR/R8 >>>> >>>>would not work in >>>> >>>>>>TTL flash mode. >>>>>>I was testing out my Metz 32mz-3 with my DMR this >>>> >>>>evening (using >>>> >>>>>>SCA 2052 adapter). >>>>>>I have a portrait session tomorrow and I thought >>>> >>>>I do some shots >>>> >>>>>>with fill flash in "A" mode. >>>>>>I flip the flash into TTL to see what error code >>>> >>>>I would get.. >>>> >>>>>>And I got none! >>>>>>Did some test shots (at night, indoors) and the >>>> >>>>TTL feature >>>> >>>>>>appears to work just fine. >>>>>>Am I nuts? Am I missing something thing? >>>>>>Adjusting the + / - dippy switches to effects >>>> >>>>exposure appropriately. >>>> >>>>>>I covered the flash's "eye" to see if I was in >>>> >>>>some odd "A" mode >>>> >>>>>>and the setup still worked. >>>>>>The flash seems to be truly in TTL mode. >>>>>>I will try it in AM daylight and report back. >>>>>>Eric >>>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>>Leica Users Group. >>>>>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >>>> >>>>for more information >>>> >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>Leica Users Group. >>>>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >>>> >>>>for more information >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>Leica Users Group. >>>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>>>more information >>>> >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >