Re: what flash to buy

[P3D Patrick Boeckstijns <pboeckst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,

>Doesn't your VM camera have an adjustable aperture? 

I guess that's a rethorical question ;-). Yes it does and I use it all the
time for daylight exposures. I also know that in the bulb era people had no
automat and had to calculate distances and F-stops all the time.  But I'm
used to rely on the automat that funcions at F4. So you're right, I could
use an even smaller F-stop (2.8 at 30 sec shutterspeed) with 50 ASA film but
that limits even more on depht of field.

Pehaps I should start to use the manual mode and be able to use a bigger
F-stop then F4 and get even sharper immages.

Best Regards,
Patrick.

Ps: I am told not to trust the VM distance indicator. At a given apperture
the flash never reaches the indicated distance. That's also why the automat
is so convenient.
 
P. BOECKSTIJNS
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BELGIUM
Tel. 32 2 6292309
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