Digital Camera Questions
Many of the digital cameras require the strobe setting to be in a special position with just the “lightning bolt” symbol showing in the window to activate the flash consistently. “Auto Flash” settings may leave the camera to decide if the light level is low enough to require flash, resulting in no fill flash in your pictures. Read the camera instruction manual for correct information pertaining to your camera. This special position may be referred to as “Internal Flash Active”, “Flash On”, “Forced” or “Fill Flash” in the instructions.
The TTL Slave Sensor is NOT recommended with most current digital cameras. The EV Manual Controller provides simple and dependable strobe triggering by simply aiming it at the camera housing, eliminating the need for fibre optic “sync cord” nonsense of other strobe systems. The Manual Controller does have switches that must be preset for preflash or non preflash, and strobe power.
Many cameras will select f/2.0 or f/2.8 aperture in the Program Mode unless ambient light is high. Aperture Priority and Manual Modes still provide TTL flash control, and may be a more satisfactory choice. Aperture priority may set too slow of a shutter speed, resulting in blurry pictures. Shutter priority may set wide open aperture which makes the camera think very little flash would be required. Read the rest of this page »