david_eicher Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 Sorry for my impaitence. I have skimmed the manual some and found nothing yeton using this flash on the D50 in broad daylight. I do this all the time with myold Olympus P & S C-740. The Red-eye reduction, Auto Flash, Slow Sync andRear-Curtin sync do not seem to fit the bill. Is there a way to do this and theother question is: Is there only one adjustment increase in Flash compensation+1EV? Thought that was strange with a flash reduction of -3EV offered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photo5 Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 I've found with on-camera fill flash that you don't want to do a +1 EV adjustment. Just let it fire on auto, and try to use a realistic f-stop like 5.6. That tiny little flash isn't going to be able to pump out enough light to shoot at f/11 for example. Fool around with it. I had excellent results with my D70 (and N70 back in the day) used as fill in daylight. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_eicher Posted May 24, 2006 Author Share Posted May 24, 2006 I may not, but if I am out in bright sunlight and need a flash to lighten shadows under a hat brim, I would not think AUTO will fire the flash, or am I wrong? If I pop the flash up, will it automatically fire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curritch Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 David. In playing with my D50 I find that in the AUTO mode there doesn't seem to be a way to force the flash. But in the M,A,S or P modes the flash pops up if you press the flash button and there is a way to select flash only. For instance in the M mode the choices are flash, red eye flash or rear flash. The other modes have different choices but simple flash is common to all. Except AUTO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_eicher Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 AHHH So simple as to just positioning the flash in working mode by raising it and it automatically forces the flash to fire. Go figure...LOL. I had to manually turn it on with my old P & S. Kinda expected something similar for the Nikon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrengold Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 David, I have a D50 and have played with fill flash quite a bit. I find the best setting is to use the camera on P so that you can alter the EV settings, and it will always give you an appropriate synch speed. Set the camera meter EV to -0.7 and the flash EV to -1.7 (pop up the flash and whilst holding the little pop up button and EV button together rotate the thumbwheel) for the fill. It will practically nail it every time with rarely any blown highlights, foreground or background. You will need to alter the levels a little in PS afterwards to bring the histogram fully to the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_eicher Posted May 25, 2006 Author Share Posted May 25, 2006 A flash EV of - 1.7 ? Mine only has a - 0.3 ? and up to + 1.0 EV for the flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrengold Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 David, The flash on A D50 has an EV comp of up to -3.0 in either 0.3 or 0.5 increments. See p38 of your manual. If you don�t have a manual email me and I�ll send you a pdf version Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_eicher Posted May 26, 2006 Author Share Posted May 26, 2006 The flash on A D50 has an EV comp of up to -3.0 in either 0.3 or 0.5 increments. See p38 of your manual. If you don?t have a manual email me and I?ll send you a pdf version Regards Darrin Gold Got it, thank you very much. Time for some testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpaulus Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 David, After reading this post I started poking around with my D50 and found that you can also set the flash levels in the menu under the pencil symbol. Bill Paulus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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