I cannot find a way to select slow sync flash on my d7000. I hold the flash button, rotate the rear command dail and it just scrolls through full, red eye, and rear. Am I missing something here? Do I have to menu dive? I've looked in the custom settings and played around with settings but I'm stumped. I bet it's something obvious right?
Slow sync flash set up
- Thread starter Deuce808
- Start date
There are ways of looking at it though.
It is a valid and useful point that there is no need for Slow Sync in M or S mode, since you can already set any shutter speed you want there. Slow sync would be pointless and unusable... camera has to use the shutter speed you set (in M or S mode).
A and P modes honor the E2 menu, which is a Minimum shutter speed for flash. Default E2 menu is 1/60 second, so A or P modes with flash indoors will likely always be 1/60 second (because we're using flash, typically we don't want it any slower). If we want it faster, we have to use M mode, or go out into brighter light that will meter higher. If we want it slower, we have to use M mode or if automation is desired, use Slow Sync... Or we can set the E2 menu to a slower limit.
All that Slow sync does is to ignore and bypass that E2 minimum shutter speed for A or P modes with flash. Saying, all that Slow sync does is to just be allowed to use whatever slow shutter speed that the ambient meters, for the purpose of properly exposing the ambient metering.
Rear Curtain sync in A or P mode includes Slow Sync (on Nikons), because Rear Curtain positions the ambient blur trailing the moving subject. Without ambient blur, no point of Rear Curtain.
No Slow or Rear Curtain sync in Auto mode, the camera assumes full control of everything.
Last edited: