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Shutter-priority AE E-TTL flash metering

1/125 sec. at f/4.0

1/60 sec. at f/5.6

1/200 sec. at f/2.8

1/200 sec. at f/2.8

FP (Focal Plane) Flash shooting is possible with the Speedlite 380EX when it is used on any of the Type A EOS cameras, allowing the camera to synchronize at all shutter speeds. This mode is useful when you want to use larger apertures to get shallow depth-of-field for your fill-in flash pictures in bright daylight situations, freeze movements or having a sense of motion.

The FP Flash mode button of the 380EX

Water droplets frozen at 1/2000 sec.

Water droplets shot at 1/200 sec.

Water droplets shot at 1/15 sec.

The Speedlite 380EX allows bounce flash photography with its tilting flash head up to 90-degree in the horizontal format. It is not possible to use bounce flash in the vertical format since the flash head does not rotate to the left or right side, unlike its more powerful sibling, the Speedlite 550EX.

Text and photos by Philip Chong.

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