Slow-sync. Flash variation Slow-sync. Flash variation set as shown in dial   This new addition to the PIC mode is to enable slow-sync. fill-in flash for those indoor or night-time scenes where you need to have the background details to be rendered on film. The PIC mode, like the Intelligent Program AE, automatically sets the flash synchronization speed at 1/60, 1/90, 1/125 or 1/200 sec. (depending on the EOS model) when it comes to using flash, whether the camera's built-in type or from an external Canon Speedlite. Shooting at these sync. shutter speeds will result in the background being rendered too dark for any detail to be recorded on film. The other two PIC modes that require flash, Portrait and Close-up, will fire at these speeds when it detects low-light levels. This new variation allows the EOS camera to automatically select slow-sync flash and record the details in the background for your photos. Since a slow shutter speed is selected, capturing blurred images or sense of motion is also possible in this PIC variation. One Shot AF is selected for this variation. Available only in these EOS models: EOS 500N, EOS 88, EOS 300 and the EOS IX and EOS IX 7 APS cameras. Examples of photos shot using the PIC slow-sync flash variation How Program AE flash effect is like indoor Slow-sync flash from the PIC variation Can be used for capturing blurred motions like this (w/380EX)   One thing for every regular EOS users surfing this site to remember is: the photos featured here, although they were taken using the PIC mode, other factors helped too. They are the correct usage of the appropriate fundamentals of photography as described in earlier issues of this column as well as the application of the three essential questions a photographer always asks himself/herself prior to composing and clicking the shutter button. All Canon EOS cameras and the superb EF lenses available are designed to help you accomplish one thing: create better pictures. Knowing how to make full use of the fundamentals described in previous issues and the features of the respective EOS cameras will no doubt help improve your photographic ability. NOTE: Discontinued EOS models like the original 650, the semi-pro 620 as well as the entry-level 700, 750, 850 and the manual focus EF-M are among those that do not have the PIC feature because they were introduced to the market long before the 630 was made available. The new, semi-pro EOS-3 model does not have it as well. Text & photos by Philip Chong. Copyright 1999 by Canon Marketing (M) Sdn Bhd   << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 .