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- From: acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih)
- Subject: Re: Canon 10s Vs Nikon N90, Which one?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.031152.9205@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- 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> <199 <1992Dec25.032603.25071@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <BzyIHq.KoC@jrd.dec.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 08:11:52 GMT
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- In <BzyIHq.KoC@jrd.dec.com> diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec25.032603.25071@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
- >>In <BzszB1.ICv@jrd.dec.com> diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
- >>>In article <1992Dec24.205338.11007@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
-
- >>With those "Monitor Preflashes" it should be possible to calculate all
- >>of the exposure information at that time and set the flash's power
- >>output accordingly.
-
- >To repeat, do you want to quench the flash when only part of the film has
- >been exposed? A better quenching time can be computed using preflashes than
- >by ordinary TTL, but it's irrelevant when the slit exposes only part of the
- >film at any time.
-
- From my understanding, the F90 lifts its mirror and the preflashes
- *with the shutter closed*. The shutter supposedly has the tone of film
- emulsion. So, with the preflashes, one could calculate how bright the
- actual flash has to be, pick the power output in advance, and *then*
- fire the flash.
-
- >>(Canon had "Flash Exposure Lock" with the T-90 that did something like this
- >>for spotmetering.
-
- >For shutter speeds faster than the fully-open speed?
-
- The 300TL did not support FP sync. The SB-25 accomplishes FP-sync (I
- believe), by simply keeping the flash tube illuminated for the full
- duration of the shutter being open. The trick is to change the
- brightness of the flash, rather than the duration.
-
- The point was that it could calculate the flash exposure before any
- film was exposed.
-
- >>However, my point still stands that manual FP sync is hardly a generally
- >>useful feature.
-
- >If you want fill flash in the first place, sure it's useful.
-
- But calculating exposures for fill flash is kind of a pain. I'd rather
- have all that gee-whiz computing power do it for me.
-
- > [...] There are other custom
- >functions that can also be accessed using the Wizard, but I don't intend
- >to buy a Wizard anyway (neither the Japanese nor English speaking versions).
-
- But don't you think it's a pain that you can't get access to custom
- functions already built into the camera?
-
- >>I guess Nikon has spared its "professional" users much grief by simply
- >>making useful screens unavailable.
-
- >I can't imagine a pro using F90. I think they'd stick to F4 and do without
- >the high speed fill flash.
-
- The F90 is probably a test bed for some stuff to appear in a future pro
- body. But, some pros actually prefer the F-801s over the F4 due to its
- smaller size, lighter weight, and faster user interface. (I think Galen
- Rowell is one of them.)
-
- >>>>"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.)
-
- >>The camera pictured (which may not actually be the camera tested) is a
- >>Nikon F-90 with an AF 35-70/2.8 (can't see whether it's "D"-series or
- >>not, but it shouldn't matter since they're optically the same).
- >>I suppose it's possible for a cheap lens like that to have bad
- >>vignetting problems... :-)
-
- >Well, I have a cheap[*] but famous fixed Nikkor lens with vignetting visible
- >through my F801s viewfinder, so I wouldn't be surprised if the zooms can
- >have it too.
-
- >[* 105 F2.5, cost 24,000 yen from a used camera store, about C$250. I bought
- >it anyway because the vignetting goes away when stopped down, and I didn't
- >buy this one for speed :-) ]
-
- I was being facetious about the 35-70/2.8 being a cheap lens. It
- definitely *ain't*! And with direct flash, I don't imagine they were
- shooting wide open.
-
- ACS
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