Re: it aint easy bein sneaky

[Ben Kreunen <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>- can you control the camera's aperture in order to calibrate the flash?
>- if it's a point & shoot, is there exposure compensation so you can
>   calibrate the workigns to the way the film/flash combo behaves?
>- is the camera small, non-flashy, and free of blinking lights?

sounds like a mechanical range finder to me... a Leica M6 would probably do 
the job ;-)

>- is it easy to cover the lens with filter too? (not essential if you're
>   only using it for IR flash wrk in the dark, but handy if you want to use
>   it for general IR too)

Why cover the lens at all? It sounds as if you're not after an entirely 
infrared image, just a way of providing 'invisible' illumination

Doesn't solve your flash problem thought...
Cheers

Ben

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