I am specifically talking about the cameras that I own – 7D and 5D MKIII.<\/p>\n
There is NO flash exposure compensation when the camera is in Manual mode. It lets you dial in a compensation value but it doesn’t have any effect. Compensation from -3 to +3 has no effect on the picture. The camera automatically adjusts the flash power to get a “Correct” exposure. What I mean by “correct” is the camera would try to bring up the exposure of an under-exposed image to match what the metering system thought was the correct exposure – middle grey.<\/p>\n
The only way you can get the compensation to work on manual mode is to set the ISO to A – auto.<\/p>\n
It doesnt make much sense for a photographer to be in Manual mode – being in complete control of the metering of the camera, and then expecting the E-TTL algorithm to work for the flash. So its a lot more sensible to dial in the M mode on the flash and control flash power\/zom either on the flash unit or remotely from the camera (Phottix system allows controlling flash zoom as well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am specifically talking about the cameras that I own – 7D and 5D MKIII. There is NO flash exposure compensation when the camera is in Manual mode….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[455,23,454,453,456,457,458],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-canon-5d-mkiii","tag-canon-7d","tag-canon-systems","tag-fec","tag-flash-exposure-compensation","tag-manual-mode","tag-phottix-remote-flash-triggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nirajkedar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}