Hi guys, i have a problem here, yesterday I was helping to shoot my friend's BBQ party, and the place was quite dark, so my d7k was focus hunting the faces.
I tried turning on the AF assist lamp to help, but to my horror, it only works with either auto area mode or single point mode with focus point at the center. The problem with this is that i was trying to use pop up flash to expose their faces correctly, and with the auto area mode, the camera usually dosent choose to focus on their faces(it likes to focus on the clothes instead), so the faces keep getting underexposed.
I have been thinking of getting a flash, and i thought i might get a sb900 since it has af assist lamps. However, upon more reading, comparing the sb900 and sb910, sb900 has "af assist illuminator" while sb910 has "af assist illumination for multi point AF".
Could the sb910 be what I need instead of sb900(ie the assist illumination for multi point AF on sb910 will let me choose the focus point I want, and help to focus at that point)?
or can someone explain the differences between these 2 af assist illumination in the speedlights? pls advice, thanks
I tried turning on the AF assist lamp to help, but to my horror, it only works with either auto area mode or single point mode with focus point at the center. The problem with this is that i was trying to use pop up flash to expose their faces correctly, and with the auto area mode, the camera usually dosent choose to focus on their faces(it likes to focus on the clothes instead), so the faces keep getting underexposed.
I have been thinking of getting a flash, and i thought i might get a sb900 since it has af assist lamps. However, upon more reading, comparing the sb900 and sb910, sb900 has "af assist illuminator" while sb910 has "af assist illumination for multi point AF".
Could the sb910 be what I need instead of sb900(ie the assist illumination for multi point AF on sb910 will let me choose the focus point I want, and help to focus at that point)?
or can someone explain the differences between these 2 af assist illumination in the speedlights? pls advice, thanks