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- From: diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
- Subject: Re: Canon 10s Vs Nikon N90, Which one?
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo
- References: <1992Dec18.031906.10270@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> < <1992Dec21.233050.15308@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>> < <1992Dec22.190513.10742@research.nj.nec.com>> < <1992Dec23.090900.19842@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>> <BEN_WEN.92Dec23164250@w20-575-50.mit.edu> <1992Dec23 <1992Dec24.205338.11007@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 06:57:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.205338.11007@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
- >1. SB-25 FLASH: 1.1) FP sync?
- >In the F-90 brochure, it shows the LCD display as "[M][FP]". The
- >accompanying paragraph finishes with "You choose from two levels of
- >flash output.". I cannot help but think that FP sync is only available
- >in MANUAL MODE!
- >SO! Someone please, please, please tell me that it works with TTL!
-
- How can it possibly do so? Sure you could integrate over all the light
- received TTL, as the slit in the shutter exposes part of the film. Do you
- then want to quench the flash and expose the rest of the film without flash?
-
- >1.2) Red Eye reduction? You shouldn't need it for a bounce unit. I'd like
- >to hear how useful it really is.
-
- You don't need it in bounce mode. However, the head does fold down far enough
- to allow non-bounce usage too. (Oh, yeah! :-)
-
- >2. SHARP ELECTRONIC ORGANIZER: Looks like a neat gizmo for unattended
- >shooting. But would *you* leave an N90 lying around?
-
- That depends. It wouldn't be wise to leave it lying around my apartment
- (from which a burglar stole 100,000 yen) but it might be safe in a lab
- recording experiments or something.
-
- >2.3) An electronic instruction manual? Is the F-90 *that* complicated?
-
- Is the "rn" command *that* complicated? I occasionally refer to an electronic
- instruction manual for it.
-
- >2.5) Flash Bracketing?
- >How hard is to to fiddle with the exposure compensation controls?
-
- Not hard, if the ambient light is bright enough that you didn't need the
- flash in the first place, or if your subjects will sit still long enough
- for you to fiddle manually. OK, tell your retailer that you offer C$1 less
- because you don't want auto bracketing and you promise never to use it.
-
- >If your camera can't AF, what's the *@$^%! use of an electronic rangefinder?
-
- You mean, as opposed to a split screen and microprisms? I agree with your
- next comment, but the electronic rangefinder is still nice too if it's hard
- to keep half of a split screen from going black, or if your eyes are tearing
- due to -30 degree weather, etc.
-
- >What you want is a *real* focusing screen with a split prism or microprism
-
- Yup. I wonder where the third-party screens are for F-801s too.
-
- >"Practical Photography" finds the SB-25 performance "disappointing"
- >because of "noticable darkening of the image at the edges" [...]
-
- Are they sure that's because of the flash rather than the lens?
- (Cynical but at least sometimes true comment here.)
- --
- Norman Diamond diamond@jit.dec-j.co.jp diamond@jit.dec.com
- If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.
- Pardon me? Or do I have to commit a crime first?
-