Two advances are primarily responsible for taking the anxiety out of fill-in flash.

Most of the cameras capable of automatic fill-in flash let their computer chips decide what the best ratio is in any given situation.

A ratio of 2:1, daylight to flash exposure, has long been considered the ideal for fill-in flash.

He used wide-angle lenses and fill-in flash on his 35-millimeter Nikon.

Later, when we want to get fancy and use fill-in flash or the self-timer, we can read the rest of the instructions.

Try using fill-in flash in sunlight (many modern cameras have a control for this).

Things are even murkier when it comes to controlling programmed fill-in flash.

Because its flash unit is always available, the Olympus was a snap for using fill-in flash.

Night portrait mode uses an exposure long enough to capture background detail, with fill-in flash to illuminate a nearby subject.

I'm sure I've listed the why's and wherefore's of fill-in flash before, but point-and-shoot newcomers may need a review.