Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site allegra.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!eagle!allegra!karn 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 Article-I.D.: allegra.2287 Posted: Fri Feb 17 00:07:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 01:35:23 EST Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 10 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