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Re: [OM] Faster sync speeds buys me what?

Subject: Re: [OM] Faster sync speeds buys me what?
From: Steve Goss <stevegoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:48:43 -0500
The flash does freeze the image, but...
With fairly high ambient light and moving objects, you can get ghost images of objects that would normally be blurry at 1/60th of a second.

You would see this effect more with a telephoto lens, where the shake is not the subject, but the whole camera.

Plus, with a faster sync speed, you can use a flash with more ambient light. With the T series flashes in Off the Film plane mode and the camera in automatic, if the shutter speed should be faster than 60th of a second, the flash never fires. If you are trying to do a fill flash outdoors, 1/60 can be quite limiting.

At least, that's what I remember from reading posts on this list for years.

Thanks, Steve Goss, Dallas Tx usa

Albert wrote:

I'm just curious, (as I have no clue) what does faster sync speed buy me? Less shake? But I thought with flash, you basically get a frame freeze due to flash..

1/125th is much better than 1/60th sync speed because??? I thought when it came to flashes, it was all about the apeture?? Yes?

Albert



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