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❚❚ Flash Modes
The following flash modes are available:
• N (fill flash): The flash fires with every shot.
• Nj (red-eye reduction): Use for portraits. The flash fires with every shot, but
before it fires, the red-eye reduction lamp lights to help reduce “red-eye.”
Not
available in 0 mode.
• Njp (red-eye reduction with slow sync): As for “red-eye reduction”, above,
except that shutter speed slows automatically to capture background lighting at
night or under low light.
Use when you want to include background lighting in
portraits.
Not available in modes S, M, and 0.
• Np (slow sync): As for “fill flash”, above, except that shutter speed slows
automatically to capture background lighting at night or under low light.
Use
when you want to capture both subject and background.
Not available in modes
S, M, and 0.
• Nt (slow rear-curtain sync): As for “rear-curtain sync”, below, except that
shutter speed slows automatically to capture background lighting at night or
under low light.
Use when you want to capture both subject and background. Not
available in modes S, M, and 0.
• Nq (rear-curtain sync): The flash fires just before the shutter closes, creating a
stream of light behind moving light sources as shown below at right.
Not available
in modes P, A, and 0.
Front-curtain sync Rear-curtain sync