Comments on: How Often Do You Use Manual Control On Your Nikon Dslr Popup Flash? http://www.topdslrcamera.com/how-often-do-you-use-manual-control-on-your-nikon-dslr-popup-flash/ Digital SLRs Reviews and Buying Guides Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:58:13 +0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Eclipse http://www.topdslrcamera.com/how-often-do-you-use-manual-control-on-your-nikon-dslr-popup-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-922 Eclipse Fri, 01 Jan 2010 21:53:23 +0000 http://www.topdslrcamera.com/questions-and-answers/how-often-do-you-use-manual-control-on-your-nikon-dslr-popup-flash/#comment-922 You may find some professional or semi-professionals Nikon shooters who use this feature but few amateurs well. When I shot Nikon, I rarely used the pop-up flash for anything other than fill flash if the light was behind my subject. In those cases, as I do with Canon now, I left the flash in TTL mode. When I really need a flash, I carry an shoe-mount flash though I may use a sync cable or wireless commander to get that flash off the camera. You may find some professional or semi-professionals Nikon shooters who use this feature but few amateurs well. When I shot Nikon, I rarely used the pop-up flash for anything other than fill flash if the light was behind my subject. In those cases, as I do with Canon now, I left the flash in TTL mode. When I really need a flash, I carry an shoe-mount flash though I may use a sync cable or wireless commander to get that flash off the camera.

]]> By: Picture Taker http://www.topdslrcamera.com/how-often-do-you-use-manual-control-on-your-nikon-dslr-popup-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-921 Picture Taker Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:56:57 +0000 http://www.topdslrcamera.com/questions-and-answers/how-often-do-you-use-manual-control-on-your-nikon-dslr-popup-flash/#comment-921 I use the EV flash compensation and I do not use manual control to dial it down. Most of the time, I'm using the pop-up for fill flash, so I will typically meter manually and set my exposure and then use the pop-up at (-0.7) ev or(-1.0) ev. Honestly, I never looked into manual control for the pop-up. I remember my first automatic flash. It was about 1969-70 and it seemed totally weird to NOT make any calculations! It seemed like voodoo magic to let the flash control the output, even though there was a high and a low position. My Metz has manual and then 5 different automatic positions, so it's pretty versatile without doing all the math. I use the EV flash compensation and I do not use manual control to dial it down. Most of the time, I’m using the pop-up for fill flash, so I will typically meter manually and set my exposure and then use the pop-up at (-0.7) ev or(-1.0) ev. Honestly, I never looked into manual control for the pop-up.

I remember my first automatic flash. It was about 1969-70 and it seemed totally weird to NOT make any calculations! It seemed like voodoo magic to let the flash control the output, even though there was a high and a low position. My Metz has manual and then 5 different automatic positions, so it’s pretty versatile without doing all the math.

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