Olympus EVOLT E-500 Advanced Manual page 51

1st curtain
Usually, the flash fires right after the shutter fully opens. This is called 1st curtain.
Unless you change it, this is how the flash always fires.
Slow synchronization/Red-eye reduction flash HSLOW2
2nd curtain flash fires just before the shutter closes. Changing the flash timing
can create interesting effects in your picture, such as expressing the
movement of a car by showing the tail-lights streaming backwards. The slower
the shutter speed, the better the effects turn out. The slowest possible shutter
speed depends on the shooting mode.
When the shutter speed is set to 2 sec.
2 sec
2nd curtain
Shutter closes
Fill-in flash #
The flash fires regardless of the light
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conditions. This mode is useful for
eliminating shadows on the subject's
face (such as shadows from tree
leaves), in a backlight situation, or for
correcting the color shift produced by
artificial lighting (especially fluorescent light).
• When the flash fires, the shutter speed is set to 1/180 sec. or less. When shooting a
subject against a bright background with the fill-in flash, the background may be
overexposed. In this case, use the optional FL-50/FL-36 external flash and shoot in
the Super FP flash mode.
2 sec
1
1st curtain flash fires
2nd curtain flash fires
Notes
Flash shooting
0
1st curtain
Shutter fully opens
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