I didn't say it was impossible (in the hands of an expert!), just tricky.

The problems occur when different parts of the image take their primary lighting from different sources. You then can't get the colour balance correct for everything.

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Are you being a little bit slow today? You still haven't said what was wrong with the images. Was it focus, exposure, colour balance?

If the last, experiment a bit, and best of all, use a grey card.

Although I have to say that, in a building with multiple light sources (especially a mixture of halogen and tungsten), correct colour balance is always going to be tricky.

NEVER throw away pictures with which you are dissatisfied until you have identified the cause of the problem.

And 99% of the time, it is safe to blame the user, not the equipment.

I would hazard a guess that the camera was set to daylight colour balance, but we'll never know.

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Fair cop!

G

You are mixing things up.

You can either take a conventional flash exposure, with any old flashgun, and the flash will fire while the shutter is fully open.

The length of time a shutter is fully open varies from camera to camera, but with a focal plane shutter is usually no more than 1/250, and generally rather less. This is the "flash sync speed".

With HSS, the flash sync speed doesn't apply. The gun fires a number of flashes as the slit formed by the shutter moves across the sensor/film. Provided they can sync it right, and the flashgun is powerful enough, there is not really any limit to the HSS speed. On the K10D sync'ing can be at the camera's maximum shutter speed.

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High speed flash sync requires that both the body and the flashgun are able to support it. The K10D can, the MZ-5n can't. With the K10D and AF360-FGZ you can indeed sync at higher speeds.

High speed sync works by taking multiple flashes at different points in the shutter cycle. Normal flash requires the shutter to be fully open when the flash fires (once), and the shutter is only fully open at speeds of 1/125 and below.

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This picture should (IMO) have been taken higher, to include more of the interesting clouds, and to lose most of the somewhat boring water.

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Well, I would say that if you own a Limited lens, the only way to get another lens of the same quality is to buy another Limited.

Simple really.

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That's what you might call the "standard reply"!

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Another way to put this is, which lens would you least like to be stolen?

For me, the 77mm Ltd.

G

"The marks of men, ancient and modern".

Or - "Haven't we come a long way in three thousand years".

(Please excuse the colour - it was taken through a tour bus tinted window.)




*Ist D, 24-90, ISO 200, f8, 1/640, 90mm, -0.3 EV, aperture priority.

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