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On-Camera Flash settings - Canon S5IS
I am, in a word, perplexed.
I have a Canon S5 IS. Great fun. Manual control, better photos than ever before, finally starting to get that 'need an SLR' feeling.
That said, I'm consistently outsmarted by the in-camera flash. In Auto, it does things automatically, and not well. In P, TV, or AV, I can choose between three 'strengths', of which zero usually work well.
In Manual mode, I get to adjust the flash by 1/3 stops. I take that to mean that if I use spot metering, and half-depress the shutter to see what the camera has evaluated my exposure of the subject to be, I can compensate with the flash settings. As far as I know, that is the same way ETTL works if I were to mount a flash to the hotshoe.
Can any S-series users confirm this, or make slightly more sense of it? Does the camera adjust the flash strength for focal distance? Should I shut up and buy an SLR already?
Appreciate any input.
--MIke
I have a Canon S5 IS. Great fun. Manual control, better photos than ever before, finally starting to get that 'need an SLR' feeling.
That said, I'm consistently outsmarted by the in-camera flash. In Auto, it does things automatically, and not well. In P, TV, or AV, I can choose between three 'strengths', of which zero usually work well.
In Manual mode, I get to adjust the flash by 1/3 stops. I take that to mean that if I use spot metering, and half-depress the shutter to see what the camera has evaluated my exposure of the subject to be, I can compensate with the flash settings. As far as I know, that is the same way ETTL works if I were to mount a flash to the hotshoe.
Can any S-series users confirm this, or make slightly more sense of it? Does the camera adjust the flash strength for focal distance? Should I shut up and buy an SLR already?
Appreciate any input.
--MIke
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Sorry I can't help as I don't have one of these cameras to play with, but I think this is a fairly important matter and I hope someone can answer.
Consider this a "bump".
Anybody?
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