sonicstep

<a href="mailto:minoltaxk@yahoogroups.com">Minoltaxk</a> Yahoo group is a good forum to join for those particulary interested in the XK, XM, X-1 including AES/non-AES finder and motor drive type variant series cameras.<p>

<a href= "http://www.rokkorfiles.com/index.html">Rokkorfiles</a> is a related site dedicated to Minolta manual focus classic cameras.<p>

Matt H: "Using the flash compensation to turn the output down a stop or two is very useful for creating a natural looking fill flash. I can't think of many situations in which you'd routinely want to up the flash output though." <p>

I have found +2 flash exposure compensation necessary to adequately illuminate subjects. I have particularly noticed this for interior locations where a subject is 5m or so away during the evening when the ambient light is provided by 60W incandescent filament lighting. If +2 compensation is not used the result is a subject that appears much underexposed.<p>

I have found that the 7D's inbuilt pop-up flash provides more accurate subject illumination than the 5600 HS (D) flash gun, since compensation is not necessary for the same situation. So for me the ADI feature doesn't work.

"...a +1 compensation is equivalent to halfing the film speed"<p>

That's interesting since for my 5600HS flash, I find as I would expect that I have to increase flash exposure compensation to achieve a greater illuminance.<p>

As I reduce the EV and remain at the same distance to the subject the illuminace on that subject is also reduced, which indicates -contrary to the flash data display reading - that the range has reduced. <p>

I need to position myself closer to the subject to achieve a similar level of illuminace as I would with a higher flash EV (again opposite to what the data display indicates which shows an increase in range).

<i>"Plus I just really like the looks of the 7D. It's got knobby goodness."</i><p>

Fine, what about its compatibility with the <a href= "http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16206&PN=1">5600HS (D)</a> flash?

I just discovered a news item concerning an Australian press

photographer who had his D2H brutally <a

href="http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17882642-

5001022,00.html">re-engineered</a> by former Australian labour

opposition leader<a

href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Mark_Latham_in_fight_12_months_afte

r_resigning_as_Australian_opposition_leader"> Mark Latham.</a><p>

The new D2H could be worthy for inclusion in a contemporary art

gallery such as the <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/">Tate

Modern.</a>

Well this might surprise many of you but believe it or not, I have taken some very remarkable compositions of girls in chat rooms (mostly based in Eastern Europe).

I won't say which one but it's free. And you can learn to charm and get some interesting poses during conversations with them. A few girls have actually taken instruction from me and modelled for me remotely by this method and entirely for free. Since they have been unaware of my captions the results look very natural and not staged.

For example I might suggest that they rest a hand on their knee in a certain way, hold their head back in a particular way or throw their hair up in the air to give it volume and movement and they often oblige not realising my intent. Some require no instruction at all since it seems they have had some prior modelling experience from somewhere other than that site or aspire to be models.

The downside is that you are relying on a remote web cam with less than acceptable resolution the lighting is more often than not very poor and the background somewhat lacking. Also the communication aspect is often extremely difficult you have to be patient not pushy. If they tire of you they can kick you if they feel the urge too and that could ruin any future prospect of any future potential co-operation. It can days sometimes weeks to get the ideal caption by which time the model might be close to leaving.

I would like to share some of those captions with you here at some point but I am not entirely sure if they would qualify from a remote webcam keyboard screen dump point of view.

Captions I have taken have been carefully cropped and recorded in a Word.doc format.

What I would like to do at some point is to somehow convert them into *.jpg or similar format for more convenient viewing.

It is just a suggestion and one that has worked for me all be it crudely by Photo.net standards.

But isn?t photography or capturing a point in time at times about making the best use of what you?ve got at your disposal?

Maximising the minimum in difficult and trying situations can sometimes make that ideal and unique shot all the more special especially when it is unplanned and unexpected.