Nazar Muhammedov
Member
Greetings,
this post is a little bit of both, asking your suggestion and sharing with my experience.
Perhaps I must have posted it to the Lightening Technique forum but my questions are specific for Sony Alpha equipment.
I use my new F56AM flash for some time already and am very happy with it.
Most of the shots are bouncing up. I stopped using my 50mm 1.7 Minolta for inhouse shots with low light ever since I bought 56AM.
Experince: I use it mostly with my 18-250mm Sony lens which has ADI. My A200 is set for ADI flash matering.
I use the same angles depending on zooms as suggested by 56AM manual and it works grate. However I noticed that flash keeps zooming together with lens even if bounced up. So I noted for myself that the best light I can get will be with wide pannel extracts, camera gos to 24mm (17mm with wide panel) and I have good light spread equally well.
Changing angle accoridng to distance does it's job well too.
But there are a few questions I'd like to ask:
1. should I switch to TTL matering when bouncing or should I keep it on ADI? As I said my 18-250mm Sony supports ADI matering.
2. when I use my flash wireless, how does the flash understand which amount of light to give? As I understood ADI/TTL will be off for WL.
3. as wireless flash is triggered by built in flash which must be popped up, is there a chance to use two flashes, wireless and another one mounted on my A200? I gave it a try but
a) built in flash poped up: mounted does not fire, only wireless
b) built in flash closed: only mounted fires, wireless does not
4. when mounted, my 56AM flash has slight movement in the shoe. is it normal?
Will appreciate your feedback.
Will appreciate opther valuable suggestions upon using of flash both mounted and wireless.
Thanks!
this post is a little bit of both, asking your suggestion and sharing with my experience.
Perhaps I must have posted it to the Lightening Technique forum but my questions are specific for Sony Alpha equipment.
I use my new F56AM flash for some time already and am very happy with it.
Most of the shots are bouncing up. I stopped using my 50mm 1.7 Minolta for inhouse shots with low light ever since I bought 56AM.
Experince: I use it mostly with my 18-250mm Sony lens which has ADI. My A200 is set for ADI flash matering.
I use the same angles depending on zooms as suggested by 56AM manual and it works grate. However I noticed that flash keeps zooming together with lens even if bounced up. So I noted for myself that the best light I can get will be with wide pannel extracts, camera gos to 24mm (17mm with wide panel) and I have good light spread equally well.
Changing angle accoridng to distance does it's job well too.
But there are a few questions I'd like to ask:
1. should I switch to TTL matering when bouncing or should I keep it on ADI? As I said my 18-250mm Sony supports ADI matering.
2. when I use my flash wireless, how does the flash understand which amount of light to give? As I understood ADI/TTL will be off for WL.
3. as wireless flash is triggered by built in flash which must be popped up, is there a chance to use two flashes, wireless and another one mounted on my A200? I gave it a try but
a) built in flash poped up: mounted does not fire, only wireless
b) built in flash closed: only mounted fires, wireless does not
4. when mounted, my 56AM flash has slight movement in the shoe. is it normal?
Will appreciate your feedback.
Will appreciate opther valuable suggestions upon using of flash both mounted and wireless.
Thanks!
