FLASH — High Speed Sync

The maximum sync speed for this camera is 1/300. However, with the 5400HS accessory flash (sold separately) shutter speeds up to 1/12000 can be used. High-speed sync (HSS) allows faster shutter speeds when fill flash is used on moving subjects outdoors.

High-speed Sync

HSS also lets you use large aperture/high shutter- speed combinations to separate your subject from the background by limiting the depth-of-field.

Conventional Fill Flash

Attach the 5400HS flash and set it to standard mode.

• automatically appears in the viewfinder at shutter speeds faster than 1/300 sec when the 5400HS is attached.

•Selecting HSS flash mode under fluorescent lighting may result in incorrect exposure.

•Flash and color meters cannot meter the flash when high-speed sync is selected.

•Pressing the depth-of-field button in HSS flash mode prevents release of the shutter.

•HSS is not available in wireless/remote flash mode or when the 2 second self-timer has been selected.

•If you attach a filter whose stop’s increase is not 0 (i.e., ND), the proper exposure will not be obtained. Press the flash’s HSS button to cancel the HSS.

Refer to the 5400HS instruction manual for details.

FLASH — Flash Compensation

Use flash compensation to increase or decrease the output of the built-in or an attached accessory flash up to +/–3 EV in 1/2EV increments.

Flash compensation changes the flash exposure by the amount set relative to the ambient exposure.

Rotate the flash-compensation dial to the desired compensation value.

• Flash compensation does not modify the output of a flash connected to the PC terminal.

• Flash compensation has no effect on the ambient light exposure.

FLASH

Flash compensation and exposure compensation can be used together.

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