"WDWFigment" said:It's irritating that slow flash isn't an option on full manual mode. I use manual mode for a lot of my shots because I disregard the meter because I don't want to be confined by what the camera picks, and don't want to screw with exposure compensation. Does anyone know why this isn't an option in manual mode?
EDIT: I do have a "Rear Flash" mode. I assume this is Rear Curtain Sync? However, when I use this, it flashes both at the beginning of the exposure and at the end of the exposure. I don't rear curtain was just at the end? In any case, would this be helpful for night portrait photography?
Which flash were you using? Manual mode means you would need to control the flash manually as well.... and I think slow flash is a little misleading, since the flash fires at 1/250ish sec. (higher speeds are done by strobing, but you won't see it) no matter what your shutter speed is.
Anyway, when you use manual mode, it's manual everything, so your camera wants you to control the output of the flash...
Rear curtain sync - the first flash has to be a pre-flash to lock the exposure. But rear-curtain sync won't change the exposure for night portrait photography - like Tim mentioned in another thread it's like this:
Take a picture of a car at night moving left to right on the film plane. Front curtain sync will get the car on the right side of the image flash exposed, and then, you will see light trails going with the motion of the car's lights, which would be to the left. Now with rear-curtain, the light trails will go to the left and then the car will be captured with a flash at the end of the exposure.
Another example would be to use this mode on a multi-second exposure for fireworks pics. Expose the sensor for several seconds first, with the subjects in the foreground, wait for the end of the burst then fire the flash. It's mostly a matter of timing when the flash fires for the exposure (since you can use the regular mode, take the subjects picture first, then expose for the fireworks in this case)
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