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shooting Flash

Adjusting flash output (Flash intensity control)

Flash output can be adjusted if you find that your subject to appears overexposed, or is underexposed even though the exposure in the rest of the frame is just right.

1 Display the live control (P. 22) and select the Flash intensity control item using FG.

2 Choose the compensation value with HIand press Q.

%Tips

• For information on flash bracketing: g“FL BKT (FL bracketing)” (P. 58)

#Cautions

•This setting has no effect when the flash control mode for the external flash unit is set to

MANUAL.

•Changes to flash intensity made with the external flash unit are added to those made with the camera.

•When [w+F] is set to [On], the flash intensity value will be added to the exposure compensation value. g“Customizing camera settings” (P. 81)

Using external flash units designated for use with this camera

Optional external flash units designated for use with this camera support a wide variety of options for flash photography, including automatic flash control, super FP, and wireless flash control (P. 93).

Other external flash units

Note the following when using a third-party flash unit mounted on the camera hot shoe:

•Using obsolete flash units that apply currents of more than about 24 V to the camera hot shoe X-contact will damage the camera.

•Connecting flash units with signal contacts that do not conform to Olympus specifications may damage the camera.

•Use only with the camera in shooting mode Mat shutter speeds slower than 1/160 s and at ISO settings other than [AUTO].

•Flash control can only be performed by manually setting the flash to the ISO sensitivity and aperture values selected with the camera. Flash brightness can be adjusted by adjusting either ISO sensitivity or aperture.

•Use a flash with an angle of illumination suited to the lens. Angle of illumination is usually expressed using 35-mm format equivalent focal lengths.

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