In article <32066663.5138@mci.com>, ronald.frank@mci.com says...
[misattributed quotes deleted...]

>I think everyone has missed the reason Journalists use a card atop the
>flash with nothing to bounce against. It's because the card will create
>catch lights in the subjects eyes, and can produce minor fill (as mentioned >above).
>I always have a flash on my camera when doing portraiture. And the Nikon >SB-25 has a built-in white card to produce the catch lights without having
>to rubberband a 3x5 index card on top.

But my original point was: why bother, and waste the battery power, when
you can dial in a fill-ratio, aim the flash straight in, and fill that way?
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