I'm shooting indoors, low light and have my Lumix GX80/85 set on P. I do this because I don't have time with busy moving kids to calculate M exposure as they move about different parts of the room/s. I bounce the flash off the ceiling and use -1/3 flash compensation to keep the light as natural (window) as I can. That is, ambient with fill flash. Problem is that even though I mostly (not always:( hit focus, the images are annoyingly soft 'ish. Is this from too slow a shutter? I get about 1/60 or 1/125 at 4oo or 800 iso which I cant raise 'cos of noise issues with the small sensor. Or is it from incorrect selection of 1st or 2nd curtain? or what can I do to improve the sharpness in this scenario?
Not sure what size files I can post so prepped jpegs to 1080px high with metadata intact (in a zipped folder)
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I get 1/125th even in P. Would 1/125th in M be any different?
It's just that I wanted a more ambient light look. Rather than a predominantly flash lit look.I just wanted the flash for some fill & to try and stop some action. The P mode gives me around 1/125 and wide open aperture.
But likely as you say, not possible?
And, do you think the flash should be at the beginning or end of the exposure for these kind of shots (1st or 2nd curtain sync)
In Manual mode when you set your aperture & shutter do you ever use Auto ISO ?
Thanks
BTW Neil, if you don't mind me asking, are you from SA? If so, which part? I'm from Klerksdorp :-)
Dave