Hi, I'll apologize in advance for the long post. This basic question was also posted in the EOS forum on photo.net but we never received much of an answer there. Sorry if you're seeing this question for the second time.
My brother recently purchased a Canon Digital Rebel with one of the main intents being to shoot pictures of his son playing tennis. His son is currently playing a lot of indoor tennis where the lighting is decent but obviously not like sunlight. He made a couple of outings using just the built-in flash and noticed that the trail of the ball was "reversed". He spoke to me about it and I suggested that he investigate 2nd curtain sync. He made a couple of calls to Canon customer service and decided to get the Canon 550EX flash which would have a lot more reach than the built-in flash and has 2nd curtain sync capability. So far so good, right? Wrong! After getting the flash and making a couple more outings to shoot his son playing tennis, he called me and said that after setting 2nd curtain sync on the flash (there is no way to set it on the D-Rebel), the recorded images were only actually taken using 2nd curtain sync when the shutter speed was 1/25 or slower. Shutter speeds from 1/30 through 1/200 (the max X-sync speed on the D-Rebel) resulted in the image being taken using 1st curtain sync no matter what mode he used, Tv, Av or M. The actual sync used (1st or 2nd curtain) could be seen in the resulting images and verified in the "camera settings" as shown in ZoomBrowser EX. Is this the correct and intended behavior? If so, why would that be? We can't think of any technical reason that the 300D/550EX can't do 2nd curtain sync for that range of shutter speeds (1/30-1/200). Also, he contacted Canon about this and was considering upgrading to the 10D, but Canon told him that the 10D behaved exactly like his 300D. If anyone out there can shed any light on this issue we would greatly appreciate it; we're both scratching our heads over this one! --Jeff * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
