Nikon SB-24 Flash Exposure Compensation, 60.811.52 3 4 6 91318m, 4 5 7 1015 20 304060 ft

FLASH EXPOSURE COMPENSATION

Varying the amount of flash, in relation to the available-light exposure, creates different fill-flash effects. We say the fill-flash effect is balanced when the flash illumination is

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sufficient to brighten the subject to "almost" the brightness of the background. Some-

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times we want to use a little more or less flash to make the subject a little brighter or not quite so bright. Your choice may be based on desired esthetic qualities, or may be forced by extremes in lighting.

Generally speaking, you don'twant to make the subject too bright, you just want to brighten shadows. To achieve a subtle fill-flash effect, you may want to use some manually selected "minus" compensation. However, when the background is ex- tremely bright, and the subject is in deep shadows, you will probably want to use some "plus" compensation. While the 58-24 is quite powerful, whenever using it for fill-flash, it is competing with the sun'sbrightness-very strong competition.

With standard TTL flash (with ~ blinking) you can manually compensate exposure by adjusting flash output level. You can also adjust flash output level for Matrix 8alanced Fill-Flash or Center-Weighted Fill-Flash, in combination with the computer'sautomatic compensation.

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1 Press the 58-24'sselect button, and

•confirm the compensation scale appears and Ii! indicator starts blinking in the LCD panel.

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