Hello,
New to the forum. I have a Olympus C8080 wide zoom camera. I picked up a used Novatron 400 VR kit that came with 2 heads, one 2100C and one 2140C. I set the heads and the umbrellas to bouce the light back on the subject. With a FM02 light meter I check f-stop for 100 ASA. It read 5.6; With the settings on the camera at 100 ASA, the knob set at 'Tv' aperture priority at 5.6, and the flash popped up, set at 'Auto' or 'Fill' I shoot some pictures. All of them are underexposed. Moved the light stands around no difference, the pictures were all dark. I then used the exposure compensation moving from '0.0' all the way up to '2.0' the pictures got slightly brighter but now way close to what a good one should be. The setting is in a typical living room, once during the day with some diffused sunlight and once at night with 2 CFL. Spouse and son are unhappy after having posed for a long time.
I read the complete manual online. It says to go into the menu and set the flash for 'slave' and then choose the required brightness from '1 to 10'. I haven't tried that, hopefully for the weekend. My question is what am I doing wrong. I know the built in flash fires and the slave on the power pack senses and fires the two headlights. It looks like it made no difference to the pictures. I was hoping to take nicely lit portraits with no shawdows to begin with. Thanks for your help.
Jay
New to the forum. I have a Olympus C8080 wide zoom camera. I picked up a used Novatron 400 VR kit that came with 2 heads, one 2100C and one 2140C. I set the heads and the umbrellas to bouce the light back on the subject. With a FM02 light meter I check f-stop for 100 ASA. It read 5.6; With the settings on the camera at 100 ASA, the knob set at 'Tv' aperture priority at 5.6, and the flash popped up, set at 'Auto' or 'Fill' I shoot some pictures. All of them are underexposed. Moved the light stands around no difference, the pictures were all dark. I then used the exposure compensation moving from '0.0' all the way up to '2.0' the pictures got slightly brighter but now way close to what a good one should be. The setting is in a typical living room, once during the day with some diffused sunlight and once at night with 2 CFL. Spouse and son are unhappy after having posed for a long time.
I read the complete manual online. It says to go into the menu and set the flash for 'slave' and then choose the required brightness from '1 to 10'. I haven't tried that, hopefully for the weekend. My question is what am I doing wrong. I know the built in flash fires and the slave on the power pack senses and fires the two headlights. It looks like it made no difference to the pictures. I was hoping to take nicely lit portraits with no shawdows to begin with. Thanks for your help.
Jay