Slow-Speed-Sync Photography Restrictions

Be sure to set the camera as follows.

-Shutter speed: slower than flash unit's X-sync speed

-Exposure mode: manual exposure, Shutter Priority AE, (except 645, SFXN/SF1N, SFX/SF1 and SF 7/SF10), B (Bulb Exposure)

Exposure modes other than the above are not compatible with this photographic method. Refer to the Exposure Modes Not Supported by Slow-Speed-Sync Photography column.

You cannot perform slow-speed-sync photography with settings other than B (Bulb Exposure) with the following cameras:

-Cameras that are not capable of setting the shutter speed to the flash X-sync speed or slower

-Cameras in which the shutter speed is automatically switched to the X-sync speed when the flash unit has been charged.

Camera Model

Exposure Modes Not Supported by

Notes

Slow-Speed-Sync Photography

 

 

*ist DL2, *ist DS2, *ist DL,

AUTO PICT,

, , , , ,

,

 

*ist DS, *ist, MZ-L/ZX-L/MZ-6,

P (except *ist and MZ-L/ZX-L/MZ-6), SCN

 

MZ-7/ZX-7

(*ist DL2), Av (Aperture Priority) modes

 

*ist D

Green, P (Hyper Program) (when

You can perform slow-speed-sync

 

programmed AE is activated)

and Av

photography using the following

 

(Aperture Priority) modes

 

method when the camera is in P

 

 

 

 

(Hyper Program) mode.

 

 

 

 

- Set the camera using the Av dial or

 

 

 

 

Tv dial so that the shutter speed is

 

 

 

 

slower than 1/150 sec.

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