Nikonos 5 questions please

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geoffjak - 30 Sep 2004 06:50 GMT

Hi

I am about to shoot with the Nikonos V and haven't used it before.
I will be using a Sunpak Marine Auto 3200 flash with it.

In the past I have shot lots of 16mm underwater but not much stills.

Questions
TTL means that if I set the exposure to A and set my apeture, the
flash will expose the correct fill flash, right?
On A, which is apeture priority I gather, how do I know the shutter
speed will be slow enough to cover the flash duration. The bottom of
the frame has a red shutter speed readout. Do I change the apeture so
the shutter speed in within flash sync speed.
What is the flash sync speed - 30th, 60th, 125th?

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for your reply.

If you know of a dedicated Nik V users group I can talk with I will
not have to bother you guys with my petty queries.
Cheers
geoffjak

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Chuck Tribolet - 01 Oct 2004 00:13 GMT

No, if you set it to A, the camera will pick the shutter speed
for ambient light and the camera will add flash to correctly
expose with JUST flash, and your pictures will be overexposed.

Synch speed is 1/90th. If you set to something faster, and your
turn on a NIKON strobe, it will force the camera down to 1/90th.
Dunno of your Sunpak blast from the past has the circuitry to do
that.

Get a manual, and a copy of Jim Church's Nikonos Handbook.

Don't know of a dedicated NikV group, but there's the uw-photo
mailing list. But they'll expect you to RTFM.

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