Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Slow sync flash / rear curtain ...


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I found the slow sync flash (rear curtain) feature of the D70. I set it on a tripod, in a darkened room, and grabbed an LED flashlight.

Slow sync flash causes the shutter to be open longer than the flash illumination time. Rear curtain means that the flash fires at the end of the shutter open period. What this allows is for the camera to gather ambient light (and movement), followed by the illuminated flash freezing the frame in crisp detail.

It's a neat function, and one that I enjoyed playing with...

1 comment:

Sashanicole said...

aww that's pretty cool!

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