Radio-Controlled Wireless Slave Flash; Autofocus Lock (Af Lock) - Olympus XZ-1 Tips And Tricks Manual

XZ-1 Tips page 7 of 29
as long as the camera and flash are NOT in daylight coming in from a window. To
photograph a room with daylight coming in from a window, use M Manual mode with the
shutter at, say, 1/250. Get a correct exposure from the window (the rest of the room will
go black). Then, with the XZ-1 flash on 1/4 power, have it set off the slave flash -- with
the slave flash bouncing light off the ceiling, or hidden behind a chair.
On the LCD screen, if the room now looks too bright or too dark, adjust the Aperture...
NOT the Shutter speed. Because since the flash fires at faster than 1/2000 of a second,
your shutter speed setting is only meaningful for that window-daylight exposure setting.
The interior room part of the exposure is controlled by the flash, and changing the
aperture is the only way to add or take away light from the room.
http://www.amazon.com/Strobist-
Get an inexpensive set of Rosco color gels...
Collection-Cinegel-Filter-Strobes/dp/B002SWIOOM
... and a gel holder
http://www.gelholder.com/gelholder/
-- (works great with the YN460N) and you are,
instantly at super-low cost ... starting to light like a pro!
http://strobist.blogspot.com/
Great resource -- Strobist website, see their 'Lighting 101'.

Radio-controlled Wireless Slave Flash

-- post on Dpreview by Echelon 2004
Using the XZ-1 with a Cactus V4 radio transmitter to set off Nikon SB-900 speedlights...
It's very easy. Use a transmitter of some kind Or use a camera-mounted flash in manual,
Or use the built in flash in manual at lowest power to trigger the slaves. Have everything
on the camera in manual. Have the flashes in manual. If using Cactus receivers, flashes
should not be set as slaves but just as normal camera mounted flashes. Otherwise the
slaves need to know that they are to react on the master flash. But manual settings are the
key, and never add a light that isn't needed.

Autofocus lock (AF lock)

Press down-arrow in Underwater mode
But only in underwater mode!