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Fotonica flash6/10/2023 Personally, I think the best event photos are ones where the lighting used is so well blended that the viewer isn’t aware of them, a nice balance between the flash exposure, and the ambient. And that is where the answer you want gets hard to provide. (FOCAL PLANE- above sync speed, the first curtain has left the gate and before it gets to the other side, the second curtain has begun to follow it, meaning only that slit is open when a flash fires)īut here is the thing, your ambient light exposure will be affected as you slow or speed up the shutter, and affected by the aperture you pick. Why? Because the flash itself is going off in about 1/8000 of a second so the shutter at 1/500 is still open long enough to capture the full frame, unlike a focal plane shutter which is only fully open at its sync speed. Simply, you can use any shutter speed on a leaf shutter, and the flash exposure will be the same in all. One reason is that the answer you want depends on what sort of look you are after. The camera won’t adjust anything unless you are using a TTL set up, if it is even capable of such.Īgain, this is a very complicated subject to try to drill into in detail here. The photography is experimental, so I am not asking for exact settings for any one situation, please. I'd use a mid aperture, F4 - F5.6, according to the Centon guide.Īll I want is for some help from the flash to avoid camera-shake / blur, so I'm looking for a rough guide. So are you saying I can stay with 125th second and the camera will adjust to the aperture? You'll be restricted with a maximum shutter speed of 1/125th second, but you'll learn how a flash works without wasting film. If the flashes trigger voltage is safe to use on digital cameras, experiment on digital. Read the flashes manual or buy a book on lighting. Without knowing the meter readings of a specific scene and how far your subject is, no one can instruct you what shutter speed and aperture to set things up with. Shutter speed controls the ambient light. Ie, the camera to subject distance and the aperture required for correct exposure. Set the slider on the flash to the ISO of the film your using, and all the information you need is on its chart. If the lighting of the scene is largely being done by the flash, it tells you on the flash what aperture to set the lens to. Two automatic exposure ones for two given aperture values, and one full manual setting where it fires a full power and the aperture controls exposure. The flash you refer to has three settings. Īs already explained the camera can be set to any shutter speed as the flash sync speed is anything up to 1/500th sec. You were asking about flash sync speed first. ![]() How to use the camera with flash is in the camera manual, your asking how to use the flash gun now. ![]() There's not a lot about how to use the flash in the camera manual, because that is flash specific and is in the flash guns manual. I am more used to 35mm SLR's &, in terms of Bronica flash settings, am no wiser.Ī very basic overview, for use of flash on the Bronica - with example settings & likely outcomes - would be helpful.Īm using a Centon F.G.3.0 flash unit, which I have tested, & works with the Bronica.īy this time tomorrow I will have used the Bronica with flash, so I will stay with 1/60th shutter speed at asa 125 film, & hope for the best, I guess.ĭid you read the user manual for the flash ? I have fully read the manual, however the section on flash photography is terse and, to me at least, ambiguous - hence my post here.
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