Re: More on Canon Rebel XT noise at high ISO - 2 main new data points

In article <Xns974B5A1AB9A15ReplyID@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, All Things Mopar <nunofyour@xxxxxxxx> writes 
Today Prometheus commented courteously on the subject at hand

Just wondered if you have had a chance to run your Rebel XT
(350D) through the flash compensation  process and type up
it up along with transcribing the instructions for it from
your manual so that you can post them here for us to
compare to our cameras and manuals? It really would assist
us to help you.


I solved by flash issues in one fell swoop one night when I
"discovered" after the 20th front-to-back RTFM, that there is a
button with a snowflake icon about it that is the /flash/ AE
lock. Once I learned how to aim the center AF sampling point at
the part of the subject I want exposed to my liking, my percent
correct exposures (meaning to me, +/1- one stop, never more than
one under) went from about 5% to 70%+. And, I can get to 95% by
tweaking the flash's EV. The rest, I can take care of by
altering where I do the FEL and/or FEV and/or in PSP 9.


Glade to hear the you have found a solution that works for you.

The sad part, for me, was that the manual is so tersely worded
and so apparently written by a Japanese and then translated into
English, that this simple fact did not "leap off the page",

Whilst it is perhaps a little "terse" in that it does not explain the circumstance where you need to take an exposure lock (FEL) the English used to describe operation of it is clear, concise, and has no evidence of the poor 'literal' translation that I have seen in some instructions.

and
for them that believe they tried to help me, all I can say is,
you need to alter your way of speaking to people, as it was not
at all obvious to me 3 weeks about when I started this thread
and replied dozens of times, that people had actually pointed
out this feature of the camera. Their "help" was a sentence
fragment in the middle of a page of vitriol telling me I was
stupid.

If you had not been so insistent that Canon make fault cameras because it is more profitable and that no one else that because Canon 'must be right' (or some such wording) then you would probably have received less references to your stupidity, it was only quite recently that you understood the implication of the function described on page 101 of the camera instruction manual ("FE (flash exposure) lock obtains and locks the correct flash exposure reading for any part of the subject"). Besides you were not exactly reticent at attacking anyone who did not accept that you were right and Canon were wrong. I think you still have much to learn.

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