Arrow in Flight - Nikon D90, SB600, and Auto-FP

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Hello everyone, I want to share with you how I captured this photo of an arrow in flight with my D90 and SB-600 using the D90's Auto-FP High Speed Sync feature. As you probably know when using a speed flash with the Nikon D90 you are limited to a 1/200th of a second shutter-speed. That's not very fast if you want to stop a arrow in flight flying at about 300 fps. With Auto-FP set to (ON) in your menu (that's E5) you can get speeds from 1/200th to1/4000th of a second shutter speeds with flash. Auto-FP high speed sync is not available using the built-in-flash so you'll need a speed flash.

Here's the set-up I used to capture the arrow coming off my cousins bow.

Lens: Tamron 17-50mm 2.8
Shutter Priority: 1/4000
Aperture: 2.8
Exp Comp: -0.7
ISO: 360
Focus Mode: AF-C
Focal Length: 50mm
Flash: TTl-BL
Auto-FP: On (e5 in your menu)

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Auto-FP High Speed Flash Tutorial Video - D90!

This video discusses into depth about Auto-FP High Speed x-sync for Nikon SB- speedlights. This feature allows you to override the x-sync limitation of 1/250s (some models are limited to 1/200s, 1/320s, 1/500s) to use faster shutter speeds and/or to use higher apertures.

SUPPORTED camera and flash models: • NIkon SB-900 • Nikon SB-800 • Nikon SB-600 • Nikon SB-R200 • Nikon D80 (#25: Auto-FP: On / Off) • Nikon D90 (e5 in CSM) • Nikon D200 (e1 in CSM) • Nikon D300 (e1 in CSM)
I tried this last night with my D90 and Sb600 and it worked great. Really all you have to do is turn the FP to on! e5 in the menu

Here's the link to the video on YouTube: Click Here!

Thanks to Lilkiwiguy87 for posting this!

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