sp-350 a preflash camera?

[sunkarm]

Hi all again,

Is SP350 a preflash camera?

Thanks in adavance for your answer (s)

 

[f3nikon]

Yes preflash, but he preflash can be turned off to fire any slave strobe. Double check this, I have the Olympus C-8080 which also has this feature.

It does have this feature: "Flash Control - Internal + external, external only, slave"

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/sp350_pg3.html

 

[sunkarm]

Yes preflash, but he preflash can be turned off to fire any slave strobe. Double check this, I have the Olympus C-8080 which also has this feature.

It does have this feature: "Flash Control - Internal + external, external only, slave"

http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/sp350_pg3.html

Yeah..i don't understand what is the difference between: "Int+Ext Flash" and "Slave"

I think it means (please correct me if i am wrong) if on Slave mode, we can control the amount of light coming out of the internal flash. so we can just use enough of lights from the camera to trigger the slave strobe.

But what about TTL? How do u use it?

 

[f3nikon]

Not a problem, glad to help. First of all there is NO TTL on digital point and shoot cameras period. The TTL that everyone is claiming is really a so-called Auto Exposure system consisting of a photo sensor that is mounted OUTSIDE the camera’s body and not INSIDE the camera watching the light striking the film, as the case with true Through The Lens (TTL) in film cameras.

In Slave mode the camera will turn off the preflash pulses coming from the internal flash so that all external Slave strobes will be in sync with the internal flash when it fires. Without this feature the Slave strobe would have fired on the first flash pulses from the internal flash, making the Slave strobe useless because the shutter did not have a chance to open and expose the image to the CCD sensor.

In Slave mode there is NO light control of the Slave strobe other than just firing the strobe via the internal flash, this is why there are people outside of Olympus, making kits to try and address this issue. So far I have yet to see them work as they did with true TTL in film, because as I said before, the sensor is mounted OUTSIDE the camera.

The “Int+Ext Flash” is a mode where you can fire the internal flash and an external strobe that is mounted or connected via a cord, on to the camera’s hotshoe, at the same time. This works really well when taking pictures of subjects in a room with a low white colored ceiling. The internal flash can expose the front of the subject and the external flash can be aimed at the white ceiling for bounce flash throughout the entire room. This produces a very eye pleasing, even lighting.

"external only" is just that, firing the hotshoe mounted external strobe with the internal flash off.

If I had to suggest a U/W photo system it would be an Olympus SP-350 in an Olympus housing, using an Olympus hardwired (hotshoe) U/W strobe firing two Ikelite slave strobes. The Ikelite strobes would be the A35 for normal and macro shots and the Ai 100 watt strobes for the wide-angle shots.

The internal flash would be left off to save on the camera’s batteries.

 

[sunkarm]

Not a problem, glad to help. First of all there is NO TTL on digital point and shoot cameras period. The TTL that everyone is claiming is really a so-called Auto Exposure system consisting of a photo sensor that is mounted OUTSIDE the camera’s body and not INSIDE the camera watching the light striking the film, as the case with true Through The Lens (TTL) in film cameras.

In Slave mode the camera will turn off the preflash pulses coming from the internal flash so that all external Slave strobes will be in sync with the internal flash when it fires. Without this feature the Slave strobe would have fired on the first flash pulses from the internal flash, making the Slave strobe useless because the shutter did not have a chance to open and expose the image to the CCD sensor.

In Slave mode there is NO light control of the Slave strobe other than just firing the strobe via the internal flash, this is why there are people outside of Olympus, making kits to try and address this issue. So far I have yet to see them work as they did with true TTL in film, because as I said before, the sensor is mounted OUTSIDE the camera.

The “Int+Ext Flash” is a mode where you can fire the internal flash and an external strobe that is mounted or connected via a cord, on to the camera’s hotshoe, at the same time. This works really well when taking pictures of subjects in a room with a low white colored ceiling. The internal flash can expose the front of the subject and the external flash can be aimed at the white ceiling for bounce flash throughout the entire room. This produces a very eye pleasing, even lighting.

"external only" is just that, firing the hotshoe mounted external strobe with the internal flash off.

If I had to suggest a U/W photo system it would be an Olympus SP-350 in an Olympus housing, using an Olympus hardwired (hotshoe) U/W strobe firing two Ikelite slave strobes. The Ikelite strobes would be the A35 for normal and macro shots and the Ai 100 watt strobes for the wide-angle shots.

The internal flash would be left off to save on the camera’s batteries.

thx for the usefulness of the info...