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From: karn@allegra.UUCP (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: fill-in flash
Message-ID: <2287@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 00:07:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 00:07:16 1984
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I recently bought a Pentax Super Program and dedicated TTL flash.  It would
seem (mainly from experimentation, the manual is very vague on this
point) that the only way you can do fill-in flash is by putting the
camera into "Metered Manual" (essentially match-needle) mode.  If you
put the camera into any of the automatic modes, it sets a fixed aperture
and shutter speed which of course makes it difficult to expose the
existing light properly.  It seems a shame that fill-in flash could not
be more automatic; do other normally automatic cameras have the same problem?

Phil Karn