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6 Automatic Flash Metering

Carters Steam Fair. Carters Royal Berkshire Steam Fair, a traveling English funfair, making a stop at Clissold Park, London, England. This photograph of the circa 1895 steam-powered Gallopers carousel was taken using two 580EX flash units linked by PocketWizard ControlTL radios. The on-camera flash performs light fill, which highlights the gold leaf. The slave unit was handheld camera left to illuminate the frontmost horses. EOS 5D Mark II, 1/6 sec at f/8, ISO 100, 24mm.

This is an example of wireless automatic E-TTL metering, using third party radio wireless devices.

As described in the previous chapter, there are ...

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