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Flash use

blowupster

blowupster

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Since I have digital for Hasselblad V I do not use ttl flash anymore (... have to sell the D-40 !)

I'm hapy with M-mode when it's possible to change power and I'm surpised how accurate it is. I'm even safe with famouse Mg flash bulbs with E-6 films now.

Manual mode is the only safe mode with xpan as I rarely put the subject in the center of the picture.
 
blowupster said:
Since I have digital for Hasselblad V I do not use ttl flash anymore (... have to sell the D-40 !)

I'm hapy with M-mode when it's possible to change power and I'm surpised how accurate it is. I'm even safe with famouse Mg flash bulbs with E-6 films now.

Manual mode is the only safe mode with xpan as I rarely put the subject in the center of the picture.
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Flash with slide film is 'entertaining' ;-) With Xpan you have little other choice than to use the manual mode, no TTL. Or am I misreading you?

Wilko
 
Yes you can use auto mode and it works.Anyway, as every shot with velvia 50 cost, I noticed that working in M mode allows me to have better results when I'm outside.
I use used Leica sf 20 or Nikon Sb-26 and 27 that allows M mode and offer good calculators to use patial power and are light on the body. (the 27 does not covers 100% of "24mm angle" of the xpan 45mm.
With 1/125 synchro speed on xpan it allows to fight the sun.

Last week I took portraits on the snow in the montain. The sun was strong, so impossible to take pictures !
Most of portraits were taken against the sun with flash. As there is no hood on the flash cell, the only working mode was manual.

How it works ?
Well. with 32 asa (velvia 50) at 1/125 the exposure is about 11 direct and 5.6 against the sun. So I chose 9.5.You put your flash in M and chose 8 on the flash. Then it will write 1.7m on the flash. If you ask for 1/2 power it write 1.2m. You compare with distance writen on your lens.

In reality I used concentric filter, so correct exposur was 5.6 with the 45mm.

M mode allows you to take picture of a blond dressed in black or the opposite and allows you to take pictures of 2 persons (nobody in the center) with xpan.
 
Ah, I think I understand now: you mean M (manual) mode as opposed to using the builtin 'computer' in the flash unit. The good old guide number ('Leitzahl') calculation.

Wilko
 
I plead guilty by the way to using the Xpan exclusively with natural light, mainly for landscapes.

It sure produced some stunning pictures from the Scottish landscape last summer... Can't wait to take it to the US Midwest this summer. I plan to take Ektar 100 this time, not that Portra160NC was bad, quite the contrary!

<sorry for going off topic even further>
Wilko
 
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