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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 435715" data-attributes="member: 12496">In camera A or P modes (or Auto modes), the shutter speed should be a 1/60 second MINIMUM shutter speed anytime flash is used (and recognized).&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are seeing the normal slow dim ambient shutter speed, then you have to get out of Slow Sync or Rear Curtain Sync modes to see this faster minimum shutter speed.&nbsp; Slow Sync or Rear Curtain Sync retains and uses the slow ambient shutter speed, but normal sync mode imposes this minimum shutter speed if in A or P modes.&nbsp; There is a menu E2 where you can make this Minimum even slower, but I doubt that has been changed.But the flash really does not care about shutter speed, and using camera M mode will let you set it as you wish (if not exceeding maximum sync speed).&nbsp; This is very handy (and usual) indoors, when the ambient exposure is too dim to be concerned about.Using high ISO and/or slow shutter speed will bring up the ambient, which is usually orange incandescent light indoors, and not necessarily a good thing.&nbsp;But when using flash indoors, we normally don't care about the ambient, and so it is well underexposed, but we are using flash instead.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 435715, member: 12496"] In camera A or P modes (or Auto modes), the shutter speed should be a 1/60 second MINIMUM shutter speed anytime flash is used (and recognized). If you are seeing the normal slow dim ambient shutter speed, then you have to get out of Slow Sync or Rear Curtain Sync modes to see this faster minimum shutter speed. Slow Sync or Rear Curtain Sync retains and uses the slow ambient shutter speed, but normal sync mode imposes this minimum shutter speed if in A or P modes. There is a menu E2 where you can make this Minimum even slower, but I doubt that has been changed. But the flash really does not care about shutter speed, and using camera M mode will let you set it as you wish (if not exceeding maximum sync speed). This is very handy (and usual) indoors, when the ambient exposure is too dim to be concerned about. Using high ISO and/or slow shutter speed will bring up the ambient, which is usually orange incandescent light indoors, and not necessarily a good thing. But when using flash indoors, we normally don't care about the ambient, and so it is well underexposed, but we are using flash instead. [/QUOTE]

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