I wonder if anyone can help - I have a Canon EOS1DS (and very nice it is too)
I would like to shoot with flash in daylight as if it was night. To achieve this I would use a fast flash and a fast sync to overwhelm the ambient light. I have tested the 1DS sync and found that it fails at around 1/125, showing a shadow appearing accross the frame. This I presume is an artifact of the focal plane shutter, and would be expected if I was using film. The funny thing is, I am of course not using film therefore there is no reason to have the shutter alone to control the duration of exposures - a more rational system would be to have the shutter limited to a speed that it can achieve cleanly with flash, say 1/60 or 1/100, and have any shorter exposures electronically controlled rather than mechanically, allowing ultra short sync speeds to be possible (an incredibly easy task for the manufacturer.) I should add that I also own an Olympus Camedia 5050 which cost �599 and which does exactly that - I am able to sync flash at 1/2000 because the exposure time is electronic not mechanical. Have I missed something stupid? Any solutions? Alan Mahon =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
