Kodak DCS500 manual Setting Flash Exposure Compensation with the Camera

Flash Exposure Compensation

Flash exposure compensation adjusts the level of illumination provided by the flash, and is therefore an important method of creative control for all kinds of flash photography. It’s particularly effective for fine-tuning the balance between foreground and background exposure during fill-in flash, but it can also be effective to compensate for extremely bright or dark tones in the subject. In the case of the DCS 500 Series camera, flash exposure compensation can also be effective to compensate for exposure errors caused by unusual reflections from the CCD and glass cover plate during A-TTL or TTL flash photography.

Your DCS 500 Series camera can perform flash exposure compensation in any exposure mode with all Canon EOS dedicated Speedlites. The flash exposure compensation amount can be set with the camera, or with the Speedlite in the specific case of the 540EZ and 430EZ. In either case, flash exposure compensation can be set up to +/- 3 stops in 1/3-stop increments.

☛Flash exposure compensation set with the Speedlite remains in effect when Off- Camera Shoe Cord 2 is used, but not when Canon’s modular off-camera TTL flash accessories are used. Flash exposure compensation set with the camera is effective with Canon’s modular off-camera TTL flash accessories.

Setting Flash Exposure Compensation with the Camera

1 Set the Quick Control Dial switch to ().

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