> Canon it seems that in AV and TV mode the flash is basically just a fill > flash. This seems ridiculous. To me the point of using a flash is so I > can use a faster shutter speed or smaller aperture then I can without a > flash. On Nikons for example if you stick on a flash and set the camera > to aperture priority you can use a smaller aperture then you could with > out a flash. To me that makes sense. If the only way to get a faster > shutter speed or smaller aperture with a Canon is to use Manual mode and > basically guess that does not seem right. Let's stop here for a second. Even with flash, the camera can either expose so that background is ok (ie. fill flash, AV, TV) or expose so that background may or maynot be ok (PiC modes, or anything with high shutterspeed where flash is the main source of light). When nikon, or whatever camera (even canon in P or pic modes with flash) shoots with flash and doesn't set the exposure time accoring to background, it's just guessing good values. With canon, you can do it yourself (manual) or let camera do it for you (P). Let me repeat here: The camera is setting high shutterspeed, firing the flash and _hoping_ background comes ok. You can do the same, it's no highlevel math.. When I use flash and want the flash to be main light source, I go manual. I set some shutter speed (usually 1/30 - 1/60 range) and select aperature that will give me enough DoF. Quick check to the meter on viewfinder that I'm not overexposing. If I am, I stop down a bit. If I'm not, then I just blast away. ie. bottom line: You are asking why AV doesn't set 1/125 and selected F-stop? My answer: How does that differ from you going to M-mode, setting 1/125 and prefered f-stop? IMO there's no difference. That's no reason to switch systems.. I agree though, that at first this all is confusing, but it all makes sense (really!). * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
