In article <31FEDF04.D94@unix.asb.com>, rebjdb@unix.asb.com says...
>Bob Neuman wrote: [...]

>> It is amazing, isn't it, how very MANY folks don't know the limitations of
>> their equipment.... Though, I suppose, most of those flashes are emitted by
>> P & S cameras, the owners of which do not care to know the particulars of
>> the process by which they obtain pictures. But, then, you see pros outdoors
>> with little reflector cards and Omni-Bounces on their upturned flashes,
>> also wasting perfectly good battery power for little or no gain.....

>Those pros are not wasting battery power...Its fill flash, usually for
>close up shots on bright days..fills in deep shadows around the eyes.
>It is a huge gain...compare a portrait ouitdoors on a sunny day with a
>fill, and then without..you'll see.

My point should have been made more clearly: fill is fine, but the
"diffusers" just waste battery power (there is nothing to bounce the
bulk of the light emitted from the flash off of [the sky is a poor
reflector ;-])
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