Thanks to everyone who responded to my plea for a quick and dirty guide to flash compensation. I shot two test rolls of film, today, and discovered, as Emily suggested, that natural looking fill flash is quite possible without engaging the thought process. I borrowed a new SB-600, a Nikon flash that allows compensation to be set on the unit. This, of course, is the key--let the electronics do the thinking. I put the flash on an F100, and shot in manual, aperture, and program modes, dialing in flash compensation values from +2 to -2. Worked indoors and out. Off to the minilab. Obvious flashiness was pretty much gone by -.7. For my taste, -1.3 seems best. M, A, or P didn't seem to make an appreciable difference. I was also playing around with exposure compensation toward the end of the second roll. Dialed in -1.7 exposure compensation and +1.3 flash compensation. And there it was: Weegee in broad daylight. Cool. --John ===== J Mason Charlottesville, Virginia >>New! Democracy of Speed, a Photo Documentary Project: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/john-m/john-m.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Messenger - Communicate in real time. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com
