Reluctant flashing

I have never been a big fan of flash photography. It probably stems from years of using those little point and shoot cameras with built-in flash, often at parties or family gatherings. The resulting pictures of people with red eyes were one thing. But the other effect I found was that going around with a flash tends to put people off having their picture taken in the first place. Better to just point and click if you can get away with the lack of light. So for the last few annual Christmas gatherings I have used a fast film if the room we were in was getting plenty of daylight, or not bothered if it was too dark. This year I decided to give flash another go. The later OM models had the ability to use various Olympus flash units in fully automatic mode, where all you had to do was turn the flash on and fire away. For my OM1, that's not an option, but I decided to keep things in the family and found an Olympus T32 flash to try out. Because of the changes they made to the flash autom...