> I continue to be frustrated with using my flash with a longer > lens indoors. Maybe someone can help me out..... > > For example: this week, at my son's Christmas show at school > I went in armed with my Elan IIe, 70-200 2.8 L, > 550EX and Kodak 800 film. When the camera > Is there a way I can get my shutter speed up to at > least 250 in this scenario? With Elan II(e), max flash sync speed is 1/125. Going faster than that and you are using FP flash, which has very short range. Using 1/125 will not cause blur even with longer lenses _if_ the flash is the main source of light. ie. you use such values that without flash you'd be underexposing at least two stops then it doesn't really matter what the shutter speed is as the exposure will happend during that short burst of flash. That will cause other problems though. Mainly black backgrounds if the background is further than the subject. Also underexposure is likely as the range for using flash is not that big, even with EX550. > BTW: I was about 30-40 feet away from the front of the stage. In this case, I think you could have done the "flash as main source of light" using M mode, F5.6 - 8.0 and 1/125 but then again, you would have got black backgrounds and if there is something in the foreground, it would most likely get washed up. -Jani * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
