At 7:28 PM -0800 2/20/02, Antony Boshier wrote:
>I down loaded the EOS 1d manual off the net the other day. I was
>reading in the flash section that the fastest sync speed for the non
>Canon Speed Lights and Studio Strobes is 125 of a sec. Does anyone
>have experience with this? If this is true this is a serious
>problem with this camera. I shoot basketball for a local college
>and hook up to the strobes in the rafters. With the D1x I can sync
>at 500/sec plenty of shutter speed to stop action. Did Canon really
>overlook this?!!!
That's not a limitation of the camera - I think it's a limitation of
the manual. :)
What they're really trying to say is that large studio flash units
tend to produce longer-duration pulses of light than small portable
units. So it may be necessary to limit your shutter speed to 1/125 to
avoid flash sync problems.
However, the camera has no way of knowing if it's plugged into a
studio flash unit or a little battery-powered flash unit when you're
using a PC cord or an optical slave. It shouldn't behave any
differently either way.
- Neil K.
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t e l a computer consulting + design * Vancouver, BC, Canada
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