"William Graham" <weg9@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> "wjjk" <wjjk@wxs.nl> wrote in message news:bp86h8$816$1@reader11.wxs.nl...

> > I have a question about the fash sync. of the Nikon F100. I am using

> > this camera together with a Metz 40MZ-3i flash. When I am using it in

> > TTL mode (but not in the fill-in mode), I would expect that the camera

> > will function as its shortest sync speed of 1/250 s. However, the camera

> > always tells me that it using 1/60 s. Does anyone knows why?

> My F5 does the same thing in P mode, or A mode.....If I want 1/250th I have

> to put it in S or M Mode. - I think this is normal.......

In "A", it should also allow the shutter speed to "float" to

any appropriate value for the ambient light (1/250th and lower);

the "P" mode limits the range to 1/60th-1/250th; the "S" mode

permits selection of specific shutter speeds for flash synch up to

1/250th. In "P" mode, if the correct ambient-light exposure can

be had using 1/60th, 1/125th, and 1/250th, the program can be

shifted to use one of these specific shutter speeds, as I recall.

As I pointed out earlier, though, just getting the F100 (or F5)

out of program mode so you can better control the camera

can improve things with these fine tools (which should not be

used as "snapshooters", stuck in program mode...;-).

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David Ruether

d_ruether@hotmail.com

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com