Determining correct exposure with built-in flash

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Hi...

Currently I'm still confuse how to guess correct exposure every time I took a picture using the built-in flash in my Rebel 2000. Because (I think) sometimes the camera just miss the guess and give a wrong exposure. Do anybody can help me to guess/calculate the correct exposure ? Any help will be very appreciated. Thanks.

-- Prihadi Ramadhany (pr279@hotmail.com), January 30, 2000

Answers

There is nothing you can do to adjust the exposure on the Rebel 2000's flash. As long as you are within range or using a fast enough lens for the distance. If you are using 100 ISO film and the standard 35-80 f:4-5.6 zoom, you need to be within 3 meters at the 35mm setting and 2 meters, maximum, at the 70mm setting. Make sure you are using the lens "wide open." Using the camera in the "Program" or "green" mode will insure that it is. Using 400 ISO film will double those distances. shooting any distance shorter than that should be fine.

The other thing to keep in mind is that the Rebel will try to properly expose (with flash) the area around the active focusing point. So don't focus and then move the camera to reframe the picture. Use the focusing point that is nearest the main subject, or use FEL to reframe, if you must.

-- Jim Strutz (jimstrutz@juno.com), January 31, 2000.


FYI, FEL won't work with the Rebel 2000's built-in flash; FEL requires E-TTL, and the built-in flash is TTL only.

There is a clunky workaround for doing flash exposure compensation with the Rebel series; I've posted it in this thread:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002TdD

-- Steve Dunn (steved@ussinc.com), February 08, 2000.


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