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Photography Question 

Thomas
 

Photo Problem - Half Light Pictures


I was shooting pictures with a Nikon F401s using a flash that is not Nikon. I used shutter speeds of 125 and 250 and almost all the the pictures came out with one half of them completely black. What could have cause this? What could I do to avoid this problem? When I use the inbuilt flash, such a problem does not occur.


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December 01, 2002

 

Jon Close
  When using a flash (accessory or built-in) you must use shutter speeds no faster than the flash sync of the camera body. The flash sync speed of the F401 is 1/125. The frames that are 1/2 black were taken with 1/250 or faster.


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