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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 122263" data-attributes="member: 12496">Both the SB-400 and SB-700 are using TTL BL mode, and TTL BL sometimes underexposes a bit.&nbsp; The concept is to look at your results (on camera rear LCD), and decide what exposure it needs, and then use Flash Compensation to bring it in.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is NOT a one time compensation, it is NOT &quot;calibrating&quot; the gear.&nbsp; It is compensation for the scene in front of the camera, which of course varies.&nbsp; But you just look at what you are getting, and tweak it in to give you what you want.&nbsp; With slight experience, this becomes quite easy.&nbsp; We simply just know that scenes containing a lot of white (light colored areas) are going to underexpose (that's how light meters work). Normally, we learn to recognize this before we push the shutter button.&nbsp; &nbsp; So just add a bit of + Flash Compensation to get exactly what you want, maybe as much as +1 EV sometimes..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 122263, member: 12496"] Both the SB-400 and SB-700 are using TTL BL mode, and TTL BL sometimes underexposes a bit. The concept is to look at your results (on camera rear LCD), and decide what exposure it needs, and then use Flash Compensation to bring it in. This is NOT a one time compensation, it is NOT "calibrating" the gear. It is compensation for the scene in front of the camera, which of course varies. But you just look at what you are getting, and tweak it in to give you what you want. With slight experience, this becomes quite easy. We simply just know that scenes containing a lot of white (light colored areas) are going to underexpose (that's how light meters work). Normally, we learn to recognize this before we push the shutter button. So just add a bit of + Flash Compensation to get exactly what you want, maybe as much as +1 EV sometimes.. [/QUOTE]

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