Alex Zabrovsky wrote: > > Thanks Steve, but would the system attain the 1/60 - X-sync shutter > boundaries while shifting the P mode with flash ? > Attaining main flash operability in M mode is good news, however, M has very > limited usage for me, especially shooting indoors and with flash aimed. I > used to A priority leaving the camera to make up its mind for appropriate > shutter speed given the 1/60-Xsync constraints once the flash is aimed > (non-Canon system, though). > How I apparently will have to work out my way in P mode to emulate the > former A priority experience (through P shifting by aperture). >
Well, as already has been pointed out, AV mode is not quite the thing you would like to have. It will give you very slow shutter speeds in a dark environment. OTOH, I think M mode is a pretty good replacement most of the time. Basically, there are three types of lighting situations. 1) There is enough light to always get a sufficiently fast shutter speed from AV. Obviously you can use AV then. 2) There is so little light, that you *always* get a too slow shutter speed from AV. Then you can use M mode and select e.g. 1/30 or 1/60 and use that all the time. You can set the aperture to your liking (within the physical limits of your flash power of course) 3) The lighting is such, that you sometimes get too slow shutter speeds from AV and sometimes you get overexposure in M mode with your fixed shutter speed setting (for large apertures ...). This is the worst case and the only one which requires additional actions. In this case I still use M, but have to check the metering scale for overexposure and if necessary select a faster shutter speed. > What I may sorry is that EOS-3 disabled his DEP mode once the flash is aimed > (it switches it automatically to P). DEP sounds to be great thing for events > shooting multi-rows people groups, of course flash illuminated. From my > experience it not quite easy to make a fair judgment on most appropriate > aperture setting to achieve the DOF just enough to cover the depth of the > group but reasonably cut off the background. DEP sounded to me as perfect > tool for it, but then unfortunately it doesn't work in conjunction with > flash. > Switch the flash off to use DEP to determine your desired aperture. Then switch flash on again and use that aperture. Not as nice as it could be, but it works. With other systems you would be no better off anyway, because they don't have a DEP mode in the first place. IMHO, you get quite a good "feeling" for DOF pretty fast and then DEP is no longer necessary. It's not rocket science after all. ;-) Thomas Bantel * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
