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- From: panos@burton.cs.colorado.edu (Panos Tsirigotis)
- Subject: Re: Canon 10s Vs Nikon N90, Which one?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.204540.6437@colorado.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec24.205338.11007@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <BzszB1.ICv@jrd.dec.com> <1992Dec25.032603.25071@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:45:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.032603.25071@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
- >>>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! :-)
- >
- >Silly boy! :-)
- >I wanted to know how useful it was even for direct flash! The head,
- >being far off the lens axis, should rarely produce red eye. But, I'm
- >still open to reports on its effectiveness (for people who do find that
- >they get a lot of red eye in their shots, even with an SB-24, say).
- >
-
- Producing red-eye if not just a function of the flash head distance
- from the lens axis; it also depends on the lens focal length.
- I have managed to produce red-eye with my 100-300mm lens at 100mm
- (or maybe 135) using a 430EZ so red-eye reduction on the flash
- may come useful sometimes.
-
- Panos
-
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- Panos Tsirigotis, CS grad
- Pmail: Computer Science Dept., U. of Colorado @ Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309-0430
- Email: panos@cs.colorado.edu
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