Dedicated flash
A portable flash gun that couples to an automatic camera and can be controlled by the cameras programmed functions.
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Dedicated flash
Techniques Glossary Dedicated flash
A portable flash gun which can be coupled with an automatic camera and can then be controlled by the camera's programmed functions.
Dedicated Flash A fully automatic flash that works only with specific cameras.
DEDICATED FLASH - An electronic flash unit that integrates automatically with a specific camera's exposure meter and exposure controls, permitting simplified, fully-automatic use of the flash.
Dedicated flash
A flashgun designed for use with a specific camera. It links directly with the internal camera circuitry to help produce perfectly exposed photos.
Dedicated Flash - an automatic flash that only works with specific cameras
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Dedicated Flash: An electronic flash that is designed for specific camera makes and models. When the flash is attached to the camera and turned on, the camera's shutter speed is automatically adjusted to the correct setting.
Dedicated Flash - Describes an electronic flash that is made to be used only with a specific model of camera.
Dedicated flash. An electronic flash unit designed to work with the automatic exposure features of a specific camera. Most such devices actually measure the light reaching the sensor as a way of determining proper exposure settings.
-Dedicated flash - flash gun designed to integrate automatically into a cameras exposure reading and shutter circuitry.
Dedicated Flash
Flash units made to work only with the same-brand camera (e.g. Nikon camera, Nikon flash). There is an unfortunate trend in digicam makers to produce cameras which will only work easily with same-brand flashes, a trend which I loathe.
A dedicated flash unit is an electronic flash which contains computerized electronics and which is designed to work uniquely with one particular camera system. For example, Canon sell Speedlite E-series flash units.
Why get a dedicated flash meter when you can use a multi-function meter such as Sekonic's L-758DR (right)?
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Here's the list just received from Metz for dedicated TTL with Panasonic and Olympus cameras.For fully dedicated flash mode with Olympus and Panasonic digital system cameras we recommend the following...
The Nikon SB-M dedicated flash is designed specifically for the FM10, but it will also accept any other nondedicated hot shoe mounted flash for guide number manual or flash mounted sensor automatic exposure control - the venerable Vivitar 283 (guide ...
Hot shoes with dedicated flash contacts
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- Designed for Pentax dedicated flashes
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- Auto (Green mode)
- Program AE (P)
- Sensitivity priority (Sv)
- Shutter priority (Tv)
- Aperture priority (Av)
- Shutter & Aperture priority (TAv)
- Metered Manual (M)
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It is not a dedicated flash so you must set your camera for manual exposure. As for the flash, just choose one of the auto modes whose operating range fits your shooting situation.
When one of these flash units is designed to work with the camera model you are using, it's call a dedicated flash.
Today, most built-in and dedicated flash units have a special mode just for fill-in flash. Basically, all you do is point and shoot.
Some fancy automatic cameras with their dedicated flashes have a high-speed sync function that uses a series of flash bursts over time to evenly illuminate each part of the frame above the flash-sync speed.
Metering system on many electronic camera systems which allows for the camera and a dedicated flash unit to determine proper exposure based on aperture, shutter speed and flash power.
For more power, but especially more control, you need both a separate, external flash unit plus a dedicated flash cord.
The Nikon D70 when not used with a dedicated flash, for instance, an old 1980s non-dedicated flash or probably also when used with the shoe-mount sync adapter for external flash.
My preference with flash photography is to have dedicated flash that is either on a hotshoe, flash bracket or off camera - however there are plenty of times when all you've got at your disposal is the in camera flash.
Dedicated flashes can receive data from your camera and can determine a proper exposure by themselves. If you have one of these flashes, you can leave it in "auto" or "TTL" mode. Just set your camera manually and let the flash set itself.
Also known as the hot shoe, the flash socket is the bracket that holds a dedicated flash unit in place on the camera and enables the camera's automatic functions to synchronize with the flash unit.
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X-synch cable
Cable for connecting a non-dedicated flash or studio flash. The cable only passes the command to fire and no other instructions.
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This method can also be used with dedicated flash guns with rotatable heads, where the head is adjusted to point at a white ceiling or a reflective wall. In the studio, this principle is used when the light is bounced of a reflective umbrella.
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