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- From: dwing@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Elan flash question (rookie)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.174938.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:42:38 GMT
- Sender: netnews@copper.denver.colorado.edu
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- I recently purcahsed a Canon Elan with the 28-80 lens, and have a few
- questions. I learned all my photography (not much, mind you) using a
- fully-manual 35mm camera that was purchased in the 60's....
-
- So... I'd like to use the Elan's built-in flash, at night (it will be
- dark, so a flash will be necessary), but would like a smaller aperture
- than what the camera selects. On a fully manual camera, I'd decrease the
- aperture (use a bigger number) and take a longer exposure.
-
- No problem, thought I, I'll just move it out of P (fully automatic program)
- to aperture priority, set the aperture, and the camera will tell me it needed
- to use 1/15 or 1/30 of a second to properly expose the scene with the
- flash. But instead it decides I'm trying to properly expose the background
- whilst using the flash, and tells me it'll expose for 1.5 seconds at f5.6
- or so.
-
- My thought then was that using the flash without adjusting the flash output
- might work, or it might not -- it all depends on what the camera decides is
- the necessary flash output (duration) and how much I can extend the duration.
-
- So my question is: How do I get a smaller aperture with more DOF using my
- flash? Or is what I am doing completely unnecessary or unexpected?
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver (DGW11)
-